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Starting from the premise that we can no longer afford to live in a disenchanted world, Moore shows that a profound, enchanted engagement with life is not a childish thing to be put away with adulthood, but a necessity for one's personal and collective survival.

With his lens focused on specific aspects of daily life such as clothing, food, furniture, architecture, ecology, language, and politics, Moore describes the renaissance these can undergo when there is a genuine engagement with beauty, craft, nature, and art in both private and public life.

Millions of readers who found comfort and substance in Moore's previous bestsellers will discover in this book ways to restore the heart and soul of work, home, and creative endeavors through a radical, fresh return to ancient ways of living the soulful life..
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Jesus and Darwin do battle on car bumpers across America Medallions of fish symbolizing Jesus are answered by ones of amphibians stamped "Darwin," and stickers proclaiming "Jesus Loves You" are countered by "Darwin Loves You." The bumper sticker debate might be trivial and the pronouncement that "Darwin Loves You" may seem merely ironic, but George Levine insists that the message contains an unintended truth. In fact, he argues, we can read it straight. Darwin, Levine shows, saw a world from which his theory had banished transcendence as still lovable and enchanted, and we can see it like that too--if we look at his writings and life in a new way.

Although Darwin could find sublimity even in ants or worms, the word "Darwinian" has largely been taken to signify a disenchanted world driven by chance and heartless competition. Countering the pervasive view that the facts of Darwin's world must lead to a disenchanting vision of it, Levine shows that Darwin's ideas and the language of his books offer an alternative form of enchantment, a world rich with meaning and value, and more wonderful and beautiful than ever before. Without minimizing or sentimentalizing the harsh qualities of life governed by natural selection, and without deifying Darwin, Levine makes a moving case for an enchanted secularism--a commitment to the value of the natural world and the human striving to understand it.

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After Modernity? addresses a cluster of questions and issues found at the nexus of globalization and religion This unique volume examine various religious--especially Christian--evaluations of and responses to globalization. In particular, the book considers the links among globalization, capitalism and secularization--and the ways in which 'religion' is (or can be) deployed to address a range of 'hot button' topics. With cross-disciplinary analyses, the collection argues consistently for the necessity of a 'post-secular' evaluation of globalization that unapologetically draws on the resources of Christian faith. The 'conservative radicalism' represented in these contributions will resonate with a broad audience of scholars and citizens who seek to put faith into action..
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Thomas Moore provides the original source material he drew on or quoted in his megabestsellers Care of the Soul,Soul Mates and The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life. This companion volume is ideal for reading and study groups.

Thomas Moore's first two books, Care of the Soul and Soul Mates, have sold two million copies, appeared on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list for 96 weeks combined and have touched the lives of millions of people across the country. The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Lifeis an essential companion volume, divided into chapters on topics such as marriage and intimacy, friendship and community, spirit and soul. For each chapter, Thomas Moore has created a study guide, with an overview of the theme and suggestions for discussion. However, the book is more than a reader's tool; it offers the wisdom and guidance of many cultures and ages.

From the Greek tragedies and ancient magical texts to the writings of the Renaissance philosophers to those of modern archetypal psychologists, these passages were selected not only for content, but for the beauty and power of their language, making The Education of the Heart as much a richly rewarding reading experience as a resource.

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The colorful tale of the successful flowering of an obscure, ancient Eastern sect in the modern world.

In a single generation, Tibetan Buddhism developed from the faith of a remote mountain people, associated with bizarre, almost medieval, superstitions, to perhaps the most rapidly growing and celebrity-studded religion in the West.

Disaffected with other religious traditions yet searching for meaning, huge numbers of Americans have found their way to the wisdom of Tibetan lamas in exile. Earthy, humorous, commonsensical, and eccentric, these flamboyant teachers—larger-than-life characters like Lama Yeshe and Chogyma Trungpa—proved to be charismatic and gifted ambassadors for their ancient religion. So did two Western women, born in Brooklyn and London's East End, whose homegrown religious intuitions turned out to be identical with the most sophisticated Tibetan teachings, revealing them to be reincarnated lamas.

With great flair for both the sublime and the human, Jeffrey Paine narrates in page-turning, richly informative fashion how Tibetan Buddhism—rarified and sensual, mystical and commonsensical—became the ideal religion for a "post-religious" age. 15 photographs..
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An adventure into personal beliefs and strategies that limit your capacity for a full and magnificent life..
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The Re-Enchantment of the West challenges those theories that predict widespread secularization beyond traditional institutional religiosity. Spiritualities are emerging that are not only quite different from the those forms of religion that are in decline, but are often defined over against them and articulated and passed on in ways quite different from those of traditional religion. In particular, it is argued that such contemporary Western spirituality is fed by a constantly replenished reservoir of ideas, practices, and methodologies, which is here termed 'occulture'. Moreover, such occultural ideas both feed into and are resourced by popular culture. Indeed, popular occulture is a key feature of the re-enchantment of the West.

Demonstrating the significance and ubiquity of these ideas, this book examines, for example, healthcare and nursing, contemporary environmentalism, psychedelia and drug use, the Internet and cyberspirituality, belief in UFOs and extraterrestrial life, demonology and the contemporary fascination with the figure of Satan, the heavy metal subculture, popular apocalypticism, and millennial violence..
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