Thinking through Thomas Merton

Thinking through Thomas MertonConsiders the legacy of Thomas Merton and his relevance for contemporary times. With the publication of The Seven Storey Mountain in 1948, Thomas Merton became a bestselling author, writing about spiritual contemplation in a modern context. Although Merton (19151968) lived as a Trappist monk, he advocated a spiritual life that was not a retreat from the world, but an alternative to it, particularly to the deadening materialism and spiritual vacuity of

scientific experimentation

As a dance that Egyptians learn in childhood

Teaching-The Imperiled Profession goes beyond conventional analyses

His love for and knowledge of the Egyptian Arabian horse

but to those who have maintained and renewed it down the ages

The demand for cassava in Asia is expected to grow in the years to come

On a deeper level

The Confidence-Man is a satire of American life that explores with unsparing pessimism themes of religion

a widely observed event across the Hindu world

The work of building pedagogues is an ongoing process

“Japan is often called by foreign people a land of sunshine and cherry blossoms

brilliant but licentious