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ON SEXUALITY, SPIRITUALITY, SCHIZOPHRENIA AND MORE THE MASTERY OF LIFE'S MEANING
Random House, $24.95
Winifred Gallagher, author of Working on God (Modern Library, 2000) and a journalist who has written for The Atlantic Monthly, climbs the proverbial mountain to ask the gurus what the meaning of life is. These "spiritual geniuses" include a no-nonsense friar saving orphans in India, a mystical New England rabbi, a Buddhist nun living in a cave, a professor of religious studies fighting to protect Muslim women from abuse and an evangelist working with the poor in a Philadelphia slum, among others. Gallagher concludes that "these spiritual geniuses are all onto something, and somehow, in the end, it is the same thing."
