Faith : Filling the God-sized Hole

Author: Renuka NarayananPublisher: PenguinYear: 2003Language: EnglishPages: 256ISBN/UPC (if available): 0143028847 DescriptionIn Faith, Renuka Narayanan, one of India’s leading mainstream commentators on religion and spirituality, looks at ways to fill the empty space that Sartre famously called ‘the God-sized’ hole in our consciousness. Eschewing extreme viewpoints, she tries to apply the Big Idea to our little lives, and makes many interfaith discoveries in the process. This volume contains a selection of her writings in ‘Faithline’, the popular column begun in April 2000, which also draws frequent protest from the orthodoxy for the questions it asks or the points it makes. Prospecting the middle ground—‘a thorny, rocky, slippery path’—where several shades of truth can be glimpsed, Narayanan looks at everyday events and comes up with codes to live by. A musical performance, for instance, becomes an opportunity to discover the joy of differences—and the joy of accepting such differenc