{"product_id":"9780967042114","title":"Letters From The American Desert","description":"Twenty years in the making, inLetters from the American Desert, Glaysher reflects on the cultural, political, and religious history of Western and non-Western civilizations, pondering the dilemmas of postmodernity, in a compelling struggle for spiritual knowledge and truth. In what is a highly autobiographical work, fully cognizant of the relativism and nihilism of modern life, Glaysher finds a deeper meaning and purpose in the universal Vision of Baha'u'llah, as expressed in the Reform Bahai Faith. Confronting the antinomies of the soul, grounded in the dialectic, Glaysher charts a path beyond the postmodern desert.\u003cp\u003eAlluding extensively to Martin Luther and W. B. Yeats at All Souls Chapel, \"metaphors for poetry,\" from Yeats's book A Vision, Glaysher invites Reform Bahais and others to consider the example of the global, universal, moderate form of the Bahai Teachings as interpreted by Abdul-Baha, Baha'u'llah's son, who had spoken throughout the West in Europe, England, and the United States from 1911 to 1913. Abdul-Baha's message of the oneness of God, all religions, and humankind holds out a new hope and peaceful Vision for a world in spiritual and global crisis. Far from a theocracy, the Reform Bahai Faith envisions a modest separation of church and state, as the will of God, in an unorganized religion, a universal synthesis of all spiritual and wisdom traditions, in harmony and balance with universal peace, in a global age of pluralism, where religious belief is a distinctive mark of the individual, not collective, communal identity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Earthrise Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47023820505328,"sku":"9780967042114","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780967042114_p0.jpg?v=1763878676","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780967042114","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}