Maggie Oman Shannon

The Way We Pray (eBook, ePUB)

Prayer Practices from Around the World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Unity minister and author of Prayers for Healing explores prayer practices across the world's many religions in this inspiring celebration of faith. In this ideal guide for spiritual explorers everywhere, author Maggie Oman Shannon presents fifty wonderfully diverse prayer practices. Among the powerful and colorful rituals she describes are walking a labyrinth, speaking affirmations, writing in a gratitude journal, displaying prayer flags, dressing in ceremonial costumes, reading sacred scriptures, listening to the resonant sounds of a prayer bowl, drawing a mandala, counting prater beads, fasting, writing haiku, and chanting. For each of these practices and more, Shannon offers historical details, meanings and interpretations, and stories and anecdotes from practitioners she interviewed. She also includes suggestions for bringing these rituals into one's own spiritual practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Conari Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781609252380
• Artikelnr.: 37933983

Autorenporträt

Maggie Oman Shannon is a spiritual director and writer. She is the author of One God, Shared Hope and The Way We Pray, editor of Prayers for Healing and coauthor of A String and a Prayer. She lives in San Francisco.