Know
me slowly.
A koan
even to myself.
A taste
unique, acquired.
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Know
me slowly. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
A Jesuit priest and professor, Vernon Ruland has taught courses at the University of San Francisco since 1974 in world religions, psychology of religion, religious ethics, and humanities in the honors program. As a state-licensed family therapist residing in student dorms most of these years, he has befriended many international students, especially from the Pacific Rim, and drawn near to a wide ethnic spectrum of dialect, dress, music, and aromas from portable hot plates.
Ever since his doctorate in religion and literature from the University of Chicago he has been exploring the controversial borders between spirituality, ethics, myth, and psychotherapy. His books include Horizons of Criticism: An Assessment of Religious-Literary Options (1975); Sacred Lies and Silences: A Psychology of Religious Disguise (1994); Imagining the Sacred: Soundings in World Religions (1998), awarded the 1999 ASN National Jesuit Book Award in philosophy and theology; Conscience Across Borders: An Ethics of Global Rights and Religious Pluralism (2002); Tactics of Nevertheless: Selected Poems (2002); and Living Out the Questions: A Jesuit Confession (2006).