Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center by Michael Downing

Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center

Michael Downing

416 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Eastern tradition collides with Western individualism in this provocative and compulsively readable investigation of Buddhism, American-style. A genuine spiritual movement becomes strangely entangled with elitist aesthetics, the culture of celebri...

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