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The Cloister Walk
by Kathleen Norris
The Cloister Walk: Spirituality for the Masses
In The Cloister Walk, award winning author and poet Kathleen Norris set out to pen a discussion on a small and overlooked part of today’s society-- the practice of monasticism. To her own surprise, the author enters the world of the Benedictines, sharing with and learning from them in ways that are almost unfathomable, but completely refreshing. The Cloister Walk looks at the spiritual in a way that will attract readers with no religious background, and offer a new outlook. Norris searches through the art of finding the relevance of faith as an insider and outsider of religion. This book shows the correlation between the reverent and the worldly in an extraordinary contemplation of the divine. The Cloister Walk, which makes for enticingly scriptural reading, is at some points like a prayer, and at others like a dialogue on theory. Through her observation of the community, Norris shows her audience how there is worship in daily rituals and habits. The Cloister Walk proves that there are still small, pure places left in the world, and from them, we can all learn.
Title: The Cloister Walk
Author: Kathleen Norris
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
ISBN: 1573225843
Review written by: Ashleigh Hill
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