Title: Revelation : a search for faith in a violent religious world /
Authors: Covington, Dennis,
Year: 2016
Subjects: Covington, Dennis Travel.; Faith; Violence
Abstract: "In war zones witnessing widespread conflict, what makes life at all worth living? When chaos becomes a way of life in places where religion and violence intersect, what do people hold on to? If religious belief is, as Christopher Hitchens argues, the cause of wars and genocide, then is faith the cure? Dennis Covington pursued answers to these questions for years, traveling deep into places like Syria, Mexico, and the American South. Looking not for rigid doctrines, creeds, or beliefs--which, he says, can be contradictory, even dangerous--he sought something bigger and more fundamental: faith. It's faith in goodness, kindness, and the humanity of the smallest moments that makes the most difficult times bearable.
Contents: Easter in Juárez -- Seven days in May -- In love with things that vanish -- The years the locust ate -- What I didn't tell the woman from Kyrgyzstan -- All we have is God -- The disappeared -- The headless Girl -- The call -- Ascension Day -- The absence of fear -- The feast of fear -- The feast of the sacrifice -- Carrie Lawson -- New Year's Eve -- The most beautiful girl in the world -- Heading East -- Going West -- Layla and the wolf.