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Crossing the boundary : stories of Jewish leaders of other spiritual paths / Alan Levin.

Title
Crossing the boundary : stories of Jewish leaders of other spiritual paths / Alan Levin.
Author
Levin, Alan.
Publication
  • Berkeley, California : Regent Press, [2015]
  • ©2015

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Description
xxxiii, 417 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, portraits; 26 cm
Summary
"Fourteen Jewish men and women stepped beyond their family religion to become leaders of other spiritual paths. They became a Sikh, Sufi, Buddhist, Taoist, Hindu chant master, visionary artist, Advaita teacher, Pagan witch, interfaith minister, Catholic priest, and a leader of a syncretic Brazilian church. Alan Levin shares their fascinating stories and their wisdom with rich reflections on the meaning of tribal identity, heresy, and who and what we truly are."--
Subject
  • Christian converts from Judaism
  • Muslim converts from Judaism
  • Buddhist converts from Judaism
  • Christian converts from Judaism > Biography
  • Religious biography
  • Jews > Biography
Genre/Form
Biographies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-[418]).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
My story -- Father Paul Mayer, Catholic priest -- Starhawk, witch -- Pir Shabda Kahn, Sufi leader -- Sharon Salzberg, Buddhist teacher with Insight Meditation Society -- Martin Lowenthal, Buddhist teacher (Tibetan/Bön lineage) -- Isaac Shapiro, Advaita teacher -- Victoria Amy Austin, Soto Zen Buddhist priest -- Krishna Das, kirtan wallah (chant master) -- Allyson Grey, artist -- Tom (Tomás) Pinkson, traveling troubadour cosmic coyote magic mojo medicine man -- Padrinho Jonathan Goldman, leader of the Church of the Holy Light of the Queen (Santo Daime) -- Nettie Spiwack, interfaith minister -- Ken Cohen, Taoist and Qigong master -- Sat Santokh Singh Khalsa, Sikh -- Heresy -- The tale of Aher, Elisha ben Abuya -- Drawing conclusions -- The journey with Jewishness and beyond.
ISBN
  • 9781587903175
  • 1587903172
  • 9781587903229 (canceled/invalid)
  • 1587903229 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2015941821
OCLC
934645162
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library