The Secret Life of God: A journey through Britain - Softcover

Klaushofer, Alex

Softcover

ISBN 10: 099332360X ISBN 13: 9780993323607

Publisher: Hermes Books, 2015

Synopsis

The Secret Life of God is a kind of spiritual investigation into twenty-first century Britain. It chronicles how, in an age when institutional religion is on the decline, people are finding new ways of believing and belonging, and puts the faces and places to the trend in which people are increasingly describing themselves as ‘spiritual but not religious’.Part travelogue, part reportage, the book reveals the communities pioneering a new form of monasticism, the Sufis exploiting the spirituality of sound, the hermits seeking solitude in the everyday and the Druids forging a relationship with nature. Interwoven with a powerful narrative of loss and belonging, it is both a deeply personal book and one which tells a wider story about our evolving relationship with place and meaning.

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Review

‘It’s a really unusual and insightful essay, not asking the conventional questions, but probing to a far more serious level. I was genuinely grateful to have it.’ Rowan Williams

‘I devoured this book in only a couple of sittings. It has a strangely un-put-down-able quality normally attributed to fiction.’
Professor Gwen Griffith-Dickson

Edition details

• Publisher: Hermes Books
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 099332360X
• ISBN 13: 9780993323607
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 346