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Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life

Annette Lareau

University of California Press, 2003

Unequal Childhoods Well Written and Well Researched
Everyone knows that socioeconomic status is related to academic success, but not many books have examined the lives of kids outside of school in detail to reveal how differences in social class are related to differences in use of language, organizing time, dealing ...

Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life

Kathleen Norris

Riverhead Hardcover, 2008

Beautifully written and touching
Acedia may not be a word used often in secular society but most Catholics will be familiar with it. Acedia is that feeling that you simply cannot, cannot do this any more. It's boring. I'd rather do something--anything--else. It's too hard to be good every day. ...

CLERICAL MARRIAGE IN JAPAN: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's Encyclopedia of Buddhism
RICHARD M. JAFFE

Macmillan Reference USA, 2004

The ?Encyclopedia of Buddhism? provides a comprehensive overview of one of Asia's most important religious and social forces, describing the Buddhist worldview, basic teachings and practices, history, and the different schools and sects. This intriguing set illuminates a religion that is a mystery to most Westerners by exploring Buddhist ...

Neither Monk nor Layman: Clerical Marriage in Modern Japanese Buddhism.

Richard Jaffe

Princeton University Press, 2001

A Major Look at the Very Model of a Modern Meiji Married Monk
Once upon a time a guy fresh out of college and seriously interested in Buddhism went to Japan; he visited local temples on a regular basis, and was increasingly confounded by the fact that it was usually a woman roughly the same age as the head monk who acted ...

Plautus in the convent; The Monk's marriage,: Two novellas
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer

F. Ungar Pub. Co, 1965

The noonday demon casting its shadow over time.(Acedia and Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life)(Book ...
Erin Ryan

National Catholic Reporter, 2008

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Noble Friendship: Travels of a Buddhist Monk
Khantipalo

Windhorse Publications, 2004

Before the Beatles popularized Eastern mysticism, a Western Buddhist was an unusual sight in India. So when Laurence Mills, later ordained as Buddhist monk Khantipalo, arrived in 1960, he was one of the pioneers in search of the Buddha's teachings in its ancient homeland. Khantipalo invites us to share his reflections on the truth of the Buddha's ...

Firstlight: The Early Inspirational Writings of Sue Monk Kidd (Unabridged)

Sue Monk Kidd

audible.com

"Blessings he read and reread."
In a word, this book is inspirational. The tone is evident even in the book's packaging: its beach-sunrise jacket photo and its airy page design. If you need an emotional lift --- or know someone who does --- FIRSTLIGHT will provide it. Over her writing career of ...