Kaya Oakes
Autore di Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture
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Kaya Oakes is the author of Radical Reinvention: An Unlikely Return to the Catholic Church, Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture, and Telegraph. She is a contributing writer at America, Commonweal, Religion Dispatches, and Killing the Buddha. Since 1999 she has taught writing at mostra altro the University of California, Berkeley. mostra meno
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Peace to End All Peace, 20th Anniversary Edition di David Fromkin
A clear, concise and detailed history of the Middle East after the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of WWI. All the main characters are there, all the good ideas and all the bad ones, all on board a runaway train heading for disaster.
This midwestern Jew boy thought this memoir about rediscovering faith yet fundamentally disagree with the institutions that claim to guard and foster it by a California Catholic girl was really damn good.
In "The Nones are Alright" Kaya Oakes shares the stories of young “nones,” religiously unaffiliated Millennials wrestling – often in fits and starts – with the role of God and faith in their lives. Far from uninterested in religion or embracing a strident atheism, Oakes reveals these young people to be deeply concerned with questions of faith and spirituality, although often in decidedly untraditional ways.
Oakes (herself an untraditional latecomer to Catholicism) spends a majority of the book exploring the stories of Catholic youth at various stages of moving away from the institutional Church; specific chapters focus on young women, LGBTQ nones, and young people who leave and then return to faith. Readers will benefit from the unvarnished stories of these young people, although those hoping to find strategies for keeping young people engaged in the Church will walk away disappointed.
N.B.: I received a free review copy of this book from the Catholic Library Association. This review was originally published in the December 2016 issue of Catholic Library World.… (altro)
Oakes (herself an untraditional latecomer to Catholicism) spends a majority of the book exploring the stories of Catholic youth at various stages of moving away from the institutional Church; specific chapters focus on young women, LGBTQ nones, and young people who leave and then return to faith. Readers will benefit from the unvarnished stories of these young people, although those hoping to find strategies for keeping young people engaged in the Church will walk away disappointed.
N.B.: I received a free review copy of this book from the Catholic Library Association. This review was originally published in the December 2016 issue of Catholic Library World.… (altro)
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