Keeping Faith: a Skeptics Journey - Hardcover

Johnson, Fenton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0618004424 ISBN 13: 9780618004423

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 2003

Synopsis

The author of the award-winning Crossing the River recounts his spiritual journey from the abbey of Gethsemani to the San Francisco Zen Center, during which he explored world religions and considered his role as a faithful skeptic.

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Review:

"KEEPING FAITH is a tour de force -- a moving memoir of an American boyhood as well as a deftly written exploration of Christian and Buddhist monasticism. Fenton Johnson's urgent inquiry traces religious impulse to its source in the very springs of human desire -- where he finds much longing, much trouble, and enduring beauty." --Patricia Hampl, author of A ROMANTIC EDUCATION

About the Author:

FENTON JOHNSON is the author of two award-winning novels, Crossing the River and Scissors, Paper, Rock, and a memoir, Geography of the Heart. A contributor to Harper’s Magazine and the New York Times Magazine, he currently teaches at the University of Arizona.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0618004424
• ISBN 13: 9780618004423
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320