The Saint of Kathmandu Paperback by Sarah LeVine

Product Details

• Publisher: Beacon Press (2009-06-01)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 256 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780807013137
• Item Weight: 368.55 grams
• Dimensions: 22.05 x 14.5 x 1.83 cm

With the deft evocations of a master storyteller and the exhaustive knowledge of a scholar, LeVine takes us on a quest to understand the role of religious belief in everyday life around the globe. She writes of uneasy relations between Islam and spirit possession in a Nigerian town; of a Nepalese teenager's flight from an arranged marriage to become a feminist Buddhist nun; of Mexican women taking the Virgin Mary as their role model; and of American Zen Buddhists struggling to maintain their community despite a deeply flawed teacher. These stories and more give a larger picture of religious faith, one that has little to do with doctrine or philosophical abstractions.

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