Way We Pray: Prayer Practices from Around the World

Shannon, Maggie Oman

ISBN 10: 1573245712 / ISBN 13: 9781573245715

Editore: Conari Press, 2001

Codice articolo mon0000375571

Riassunto:

The Way We Pray is the first book to explore prayer practices from the world's many religions. Author Maggie Oman Shannon presents and celebrates fifty wonderfully diverse prayer practices, creating the perfect guide for spiritual explorers everywhere.

Among the powerful and colorful rituals described in the book are walking a labyrinth, speaking affirmations, writing in a gratitude journal, displaying prayer flags, dressing in ceremonial costumes, reading sacred scriptures, listening to the resonant sounds of a prayer bowl, drawing a mandala, counting prater beads, fasting, writing haiku, and chanting.

For each practice described, Maggie Oman Shannon offers historical details, meanings and interpretations, and stories and anecdotes from practicioners she interviewed. She also includes suggestions for bringing these rituals into one's existing spiritual practice.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Maggie Oman Shannon is a spiritual director and writer. She is the author of One God, Shared Hope and The Way We Pray, editor of Prayers for Healing and coauthor of A String and a Prayer. She lives in San Francisco.

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Titolo: Way We Pray: Prayer Practices from Around ...
Casa editrice: Conari Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2001
Legatura: paperback
Condizione: Good