The Secret Life of God: A Journey Through Britain
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The Secret Life of God is a kind of spiritual investigation into twenty-first century Britain. It chronicles how, in an age when institutional religion is on the decline, people are finding new ways of believing and belonging, and puts the faces and places to the trend in which people are increasingly describing themselves as ‘spiritual but not religious’.
Part travelogue, part reportage, the book reveals the communities pioneering a new form of monasticism, the Sufis exploiting the spirituality of sound, the hermits seeking solitude in the everyday and the Druids forging a relationship with nature. Interwoven with a powerful narrative of loss and belonging, it is both a deeply personal book and one which tells a wider story about our evolving relationship with place and meaning.
Alex Klaushofer
Alex Klaushofer is an author and journalist who has written on social and religious affairs and politics in Britain and Middle East. Her previous book, 'Paradise Divided: A portrait of Lebanon', is published by Signal Books.
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