Dennis Covington with REVELATION - @ Lyric Theater

Thursday, February 18, 2016 - 6:00pm

 

About the Author


Dennis Covington is a journalist and the author of Salvation on Sand Mountain, a 1995 National Book Award finalist. He lives in Birmingham, Alabama.

Description


A powerful personal journey exploring faith and violence around the world. 
Acclaimed author Dennis Covington examines the nature of faith, "the substance of things hoped for along borders where cultures and religions collide." If religious belief is, as Christopher Hitchens argues, the cause of wars and genocide, then is faith the cure? Traveling to countries that have unsettled borders and religious strife in common--Syria, Mexico, Israel, and the American South, to name a few--Covington searches for answers, looking not for doctrines, creeds, or beliefs--which, he says, can be irrational, contradictory, and dangerous--but for faith. Like his acclaimed "Salvation on Sand Mountain," REVELATION is a personal journey, this time international in scope.

Event address: 
1006 Van Buren Ave
Oxford, MS 38655
Books: 
Revelation: A Search for Faith in a Violent Religious World By Dennis Covington Cover Image
$26.00
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ISBN: 9780316368612
Published: Little, Brown and Company - February 16th, 2016

Acclaimed journalist Dennis Covington examines how faith and violence shape our world.