Stepping Out with the Sacred: Human Attempts to Engage the Divine

by Val Webb

Book Overview

Val Webb describes in this book how humans have engaged the Divine across religions and centuries, through rituals, art, sacred places, language and song. Drawing on personal and observed experience of travel and meetings with strangers, Webb uses her anecdotes to supplement her analysis of centuries of theology, literature and travel writing. The sum effect is to remind us that we need as many stories as possible in order to engage the Sacred-beyond-description,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441196420
• ISBN13: 9781441196422
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"