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"Religion," this book begins, "is a mistrusted word now," and Nicholas Mosley, in this engaging meditation, seeks to repair that trust. Rather than trying to convince or compel the reader to accept his beliefs, he describes how religion functions in the modern world. Elsewhere, Mosley has written, "There is a subject nowadays which is taboo in the way that sexuality was once taboo, which is to talk about life as if it had any meaning." In this book, he describes religion as the source of that meaning. Despair is the fashionable attitude, but it is one Mosley, here and in his many novels, rejects in favor of a cautious optimism. He writes not to persuade, but to explain a worldview that is refreshing for the hope and intelligence it contains.
Author: Nicholas Mosley
ISBN-10: 156478424X
ISBN-13: 9781564784247
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2006
Pages: 156
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.20w x 0.50d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/15/2006 pg. 106
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2007 pg. 26
Nicholas Mosley was born in London on June 25, 1923 and was educated at Eton and Oxford. He served in Italy during World War II, and published his first novel, Spaces of the Dark, in 1951. His book Hopeful Monsters won the 1990 Whitbread Award.
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