The Divine Supermarket

Shopping for God in America

Malise Ruthven (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

317 Seiten

1991 | New edition
Vintage (Verlag)
978-0-09-981760-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Travelling in a battered camping van, Malise Ruthven set out across America in search of the manifestations - often bizarre and sometimes terrifying - of its religious spirit. This book is his account of the journey, offering insights into the soul of modern America.

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Travelling in a battered camping van, Malise Ruthven set out across America in search of the manifestations - often bizarre and sometimes terrifying - of its religious spirit. The result is both a dazzling travel book and a unique nsight into the soul of modern America.

Autor

Malise Ruthven was born in 1942, and educated at Eton, Trinity College Cambridge and the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies in the Lebanon. He worked for several years at the BBC, but is now a freelance writer and broadcaster. His books include Torture: the Grand Conspiracy, Cairo, Islam in the World and Traveller Through Time: a Photographic Journey with Freya Stark; he is an occasional contributor to the Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement and The Economist. He is married with two daughters, and lives in London.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.5.1991
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 130 x 198 mm
• Gewicht: 251 g
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• ISBN-10: 0-09-981760-8 / 0099817608
• ISBN-13: 978-0-09-981760-4 / 9780099817604
• Zustand: Neuware