Sarah Sentilles
Autor von A Church of Her Own: What Happens When a Woman Takes the Pulpit
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Sarah Sentilles earned her doctorate in theology and her master of divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School and is the author of Taught by America: A Story of Struggle and Hope in Compton. She lives in Camarillo, California. Visit www.sarahsentilles.com.
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- Geburtstag
- 1973
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Wohnorte
- Portland, Oregon, USA
Hailey, Idaho, USA - Ausbildung
- Yale College (AB|1995)
Harvard Divinity School (PhD|Theology) - Berufe
- Elementary school teacher
Episcopal minister - Agent
- Elisabeth Weed
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However, I didn't connect with this book on a deeper level because Sentilles' experience of religion is quite different from mine. In part, her Catholic upbringing and its emphasis on personal guilt is something very foreign to me. But it's also because her spirituality is defined by emotion, whereas by the time I was in college, mine was a lot more intellectual, so that my journey out of faith was a matter of struggling with thorny philosophical issues rather than shedding an emotional relationship with God. From this perspective, I "broke up with God" a lot earlier than Sentilles. Because Sentilles' adult faith was tied to changing denominations after college, I actually think that her experience was more like an adult convert's.
In general, I'm pretty choosy about memoirs; life so rarely has the narrative structure that makes for a really compelling story. But I think this would be the perfect book for the right reader. And it did help me reflect on my own belief journey and the challenge of being an outsider to a religion while still feeling the call to engage with its ideas and language. (Alas, unlike some of the theologians in this book, being some kind of agnostic Christian has absolutely zero appeal to me.)… (mehr)