Michael Krasny

Spiritual Envy (eBook, ePUB)

An Agnostic's Quest

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As the host of one of National Public Radio's most popular interview programs, Michael Krasny has spent decades leading conversations on every imaginable topic and discussing life's most important questions with the foremost thinkers of our time. Now he brings his wide-ranging knowledge and perceptive intelligence to a thoughtful and thought-provoking exploration of belief; and lack of belief. Many books and pundits advocate for a specific God, while others adamantly declare there is no God. Yet these strident viewpoints often speak right past each other, rarely convincing anyone but the already convinced. In - Spiritual Envy - Krasny helps believers and nonbelievers alike understand their own questions about faith and religion, about God and human responsibility. Krasny challenges each of us to look closely at faith and its power, and to examine the positive and negative aspects of religion as expressed in culture, literature, and human relationships. Personal and universal, timely and timeless, this is a deeply wise yet warmly welcoming conversation, an invitation to ask one's own questions; no matter how inconclusive the answers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New World Library
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781608681419
• Artikelnr.: 37931905

Autorenporträt

Michael Krasny, PhD, hosts the nation's most listened to locally produced public radio talk show, Forum with Michael Krasny. A widely published scholar and literary critic, he is an English professor at San Francisco State University and has taught at Stanford University and University of California, San Francisco. Forum is heard weekdays on KQED-FM in San Francisco, an affiliate of National Public Radio, as well as on Sirius-XM satellite radio. The many awards he has received include the S.Y. Agnon Gold Medal for Intellectual Distinction, the Eugene Block Award for Human Rights Journalism, the National Public Radio Award from the American Publishers Association, the Silver Medallion from the California Bar Association, and the Inclusiveness in Media Award from the National Conference for Community and Justice. His television work has been honored with two Emmy nominations. He has interviewed many of the great cultural icons of our era and is also the author of Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life (Stanford University Press) and coauthor of Sound Ideas (McGraw-Hill). The Teaching Company has released his Masterpieces of Short Fiction, a series of twenty-four lectures on DVD and audio. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. To learn more, visit www.kqed.org/radio/programs/forum/.