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Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living

Mark C. Taylor

October, 2009
Cloth, 288 pages, 113 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-14780-4
$26.95 / £17.95

Day / Night

Beginning / Origin

Elsewhere / Silence

Reflections / Reticence

Premonitions / Postcards

Home / Afterlife

Stealth / Sacrifice

Killing / Elemental

Abandonment / Mortality

Displacement / Place

Creativity / Thinking

E/Mergence / Emptiness

Walls / Garden

Painting / Play

Perhaps / Numbers

Pleasure / Money

Vocation / Teaching

Last / Burial

Solitude / Loneliness

Things / Ghosts

Levity / Grief

Humor / Monsters

Faction / Dishonesty

Inheritance / Withholding

Letting Go / Dinnertime

Compassion / Suffering

Clouds / Waiting

Freedom / Terror

Forgiveness / Cruelty

Daughters / Obsession

Failure / Success

Balance / Simplicity

Face / Aging

Stigma / Autoimmunity

Patience / Chronicity

Technology / Addiction

Pain / Intimacy

Blindness / Aura

Cancer / Surviving

Trust / Bitterness

Hands / Will

Secrets / Tripping

Strangers / Tips

Sharing / Fatigue

Idleness / Guilt

Driving / Accident

Imperfection / Vulnerability

Friendship / Doubt

Love / Fidelity

Hope / Despair

Happiness / Melancholy

Ordinary / Extraordinary

Notes

Acknowledgments

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About the Author

Mark C. Taylor is professor of religion and chair of the Department of Religion at Columbia University. He is the author of twenty-five books, most recently After God, Mystic Bones, and Confidence Games: Money and Markets in a World Without Redemption.

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