Beyond Religion: Kiden's Search for Truth in a Multi-Religious Society (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781980449362)

A girl is asked to fill a form in Juba City. One blank space refuses to stay blank.
Religion.

That single word opens a conflict that spreads from a home kitchen to a church pew, from a crowded bus ride to the quiet shade of a mango tree. Kiden is the only daughter among brothers, and she is tired of borrowed answers. As she searches, she meets competing claims, family pressure, street temptation, and the harsh honesty of hospital wards where shame cannot survive.

Nyak, her childhood friend, tells this story in first person. He loved her deeply. Life pulled them apart when she was married off while he was still too young to stand for her. Years later, he finds himself carrying her search as a witness, a friend, and a man learning what regret feels like.

Beyond Religion is a true-life narrative about faith beyond labels, dignity inside humiliation, and unity without hatred.

In this book, you will walk through:

• The "Religion" blank on a form and the cost of asking hard questions
• Family arguments, community judgment, and the quiet pressure to conform
• Mentorship and betrayal, and how secrets shape a future
• Motherhood, survival work, and a child's questions that cannot be postponed forever
• Hospital conversations where mothers speak truth with no masks
• Gatherings under trees where people talk about faith, culture, and unity without violence

This is not a book about winning debates. It is a book about becoming honest, staying human, and refusing to let walls separate people from truth.

Author: John Monyjok Maluth
ISBN-10: 1980449368
ISBN-13: 9781980449362
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2018
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.44d