Experience & Religion [Paperback]

Nicholas Mosley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 30, 2006

"Religion," this book begins, "is a mistrusted word now," and Nicholas Mosley, in this engaging meditation, seeks to repair that trust. Rather than trying to convince or compel the reader to accept his beliefs, he describes how religion functions in the modern world. Elsewhere, Mosley has written, "There is a subject nowadays which is taboo in the way that sexuality was once taboo, which is to talk about life as if it had any meaning." In this book, he describes religion as the source of that meaning. Despair is the fashionable attitude, but it is one Mosley, here and in his many novels, rejects in favor of a cautious optimism. He writes not to persuade, but to explain a worldview that is refreshing for the hope and intelligence it contains.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"One of the most compelling writers in the English language." --Joyce Carol Oates

"Mosley is the most serious and brilliant of Britain's novelists of ideas." --Times (London)

"While others cling to pessimism as if it is the artist's passport, Mosley strives to communicate the real presence of optimism, its subtlety, its secrecy, its apparent incompatibility with the language." --Times Literary Supplement

About the Author

Born in London on June 25, 1923, Nicholas Mosley was educated at Eton and Oxford. He served in Italy during World War II, and published his first novel, Spaces of the Dark, in 1951. Since then, he has published sixteen works of fiction, including the novels Accident, Impossible Object, and Hopeful Monsters, winner of the 1990 Whitbread Award. Mosley is also the author of several works of nonfiction, most notably the autobiography Efforts at Truth and a biography of his father, Sir Oswald Mosley, entitled Rules of the Game/ Beyond the Pale. He currently resides in London.

Product Details

• Paperback: 156 pages
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr (October 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 156478424X
• ISBN-13: 978-1564784247
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,064,414 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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