The Sabbath World
Glimpses of a Different Order of Time
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- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2011
Summary
A personal meditation from an acclaimed critic and thinker on the cultural and historical tradition of a day of rest and the meaning of time, religion, and ritual in the modern world.
What is the Sabbath, anyway? The holy day of rest? The first effort to protect the rights of workers? A smart way to manage stress in a world in which computers never get turned off and work never comes to an end? Or simply an oppressive, outmoded rite?
In The Sabbath World, Judith Shule…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812971736 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0812971736 |
| Author: | Judith Shulevitz |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Ballantine Books Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 238g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 133mm x 15mm |
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“The Sabbath World is not merely riveting, wise, and at times breathtakingly beautiful, it just might change your life.”—Jonathan Safran Foer“Compassionate, revealing, and deeply personal … destined to become a classic.”—Bruce Feiler, author of Walking the Bible“What a brilliant idea… . Part history, part meditation … The Sabbath offers a way to live outside of time, even for a day a week—an act not just of renewal but of resistance in an obsessively over-scheduled and over-networked world.”—Los Angeles Times “An intense book and intensely engaging, one that as a reader I didn’t want to end.”—Chicago Tribune “Every chapter of [The Sabbath World] is a wise and winsome meditation on yet another aspect of this inexhaustible topic. … Shulevitz asks all the right questions.”—Christianity Today “A book of richness and depth.”—The New York Times Book Review “A swift, penetrating book intent on shattering the habits of mindless workaholism.”—The New Yorker
About The Author
Judith Shulevitz
Judith Shulevitz is a literary critic and a former columnist for The New York Times and Slate. Her work has also appeared in The New Republic and The New Yorker. She lives in New York City with her husband, Nicholas Lemann, and children.
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