All that's holy : a young guy, an old car, and the search for God in America / Tom Levinson ; foreword by Harvey Cox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levinson, Tom, 1974-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Levinson, Tom, 1974-.

Travel.

United States--Religion.

United States.

Religion.

Levinson, Tom, 1974---Travel--United States.

Levinson, Tom.

United States--Description and travel.

Physical Description:

ix, 309 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [2003]

Summary:

All That's Holy is a new twist on an age-old search -- a spiritual road trip that chronicles both a personal pursuit of religious identity and meaning, and an outward-looking exploration of the varieties of American religious experience. From big cities to small towns, in prisons, monasteries, synagogues, and street corners, Tom both seeks out and stumbles upon people whose faith is more than it seems on the surface. Buddhists and Baptists, Muslims and Mormons, Pagans and Pentecostals -- Tom's conversations about faith and doubt weave together a poignant, memorable tapestry of American spirituality.

With the country as his classroom, Tom sketches a lively, funny, and evocative portrait of how people live -- whether they see themselves as spiritual or religious, why they've left (or remained in) the religious communities of their upbringing, and how they negotiate the tensions of living in an American culture at once highly secular and deeply religious. By the end of the road trip. Tom learns there's no place like home: a journey conceived to learn about the spiritual lives of others leads him to a newfound understanding of his own.

Contents:

Pilgrimage

Where are you?

Preponderance of the small

Death and Texas

All that's holy.

ISBN:

0787961663

OCLC:

52312590