brian griffith
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My Interests:
Meditation, God, Interfaith issues, Biblical archaeology, History, Movies, Current events, Politics, Environment, Yoga, Family, Marriage, partnership and dominator versions of religions
My Favorite Books, Authors, Musicians, Movies, Preachers, TV shows, etc:
Riane Eisler, David Korten, Vandana Shiva, John D. Crossan, Marcus Borg, Irshad Manji, Marianne Williamson, Joseph Campbell, Noam Chomsky, Walter Wink, Marija Gimbutas, Fatima Mernissi, V.S. Naipaul, Elaine Pagels, Karen Armstrong, the Dalai Lama, Ken Wilber, Starhawk
My organizations and affiliations:
supporter, Center for Partnership Studies
My favorite spiritual activities:
learning about other people, meditation, yoga
What is your current spiritual mood?:
Weak
What's your spiritual type?:
Spiritual Straddler - I have one foot in traditional religion, one foot in free-form spirituality.
About Me
Hi, I'm a history book writer from Canada. I grew up Christian and married a Muslim woman. For me, that means I'm a Jew plus a Christian plus a Muslim. And as some Sufi guy in Palestine reportedly said, "Prophets don't fight over which one is greatest. Only their more petty followers fight over who is the greatest".
I recently wrote a book called "Different Visions of Love: Partnership and Dominator Values in Christian History". It tries to look at the course of events in Christian history using Riane Eisler's insights about the competition between different kinds of values -- some appropriate to relations of partnership, and some appropriate to relations of domination. The book is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and in paper or as an e-book at http://outskirtspress.com/briangriffith .
Before that I wrote a book called "The Gardens of Their Dreams: Desertification and Culture in World History". It's about the social consequences for societies which have slowly turned their environments into barren deserts over the past few thousand years.
Anyway, I hope to meet and talk with many of you about our shared concerns.
My Basics
Gender: Male
Occupation: writer, editor, proofreader
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Review of Different Visions of Love
Posted: Oct 20, 2008 6:59 AM
I got a review of my book from Reggie Modlich, a writer for Herizons and Women & Environments magazines. It's an atheist's view of... (more)
What do you mean by dominator and...
Posted: May 6, 2008 5:10 AM
I think each religion has a dominator and a partnership version. And I they are different partly because they are answers to... (more)
Posted: Apr 23, 2008 5:13 AM
I believe people of every culture are divided over which ideals and loyalties should be primary in their lives. And though some visions... (more)
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