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Praying with our hands : 21 practices of embodied prayer from the world's spiritual traditions

by Jon M. Sweeney, Taitetsu Unno

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Twenty-one simple ways of using hands to speak to God to enrich devotion and ritual are presented here in word and image. Spiritual traditions represented include Anglican, Sufi, Zen, Roman Catholic, Yoga, Shaker, Hindu, Jewish, Pentecostal, and Eastern Orthodox. 21 photos.

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Book data: Open Library