Desert Spirit Places: The Sacred Southwest - Paperback

by Brad Karelius (Author), Ron Dart (Foreword by)

The iconic landscape of the American Southwest reveals the luminescent Mitten rock formations, looming rock arches, and vast sagebrush oceans made vivid and memorable by writer Tony Hillerman, artist Georgia O'Keefe, and director John Ford. Professor Brad Karelius, drawing on forty years of college teaching, will guide you into hidden mysteries of the sacred as revealed by the Zuni, Navajo/Dine, Hopi, Hispanos, and desert mystics as you seek spiritual encounters in these desert spirit places.

Author Biography

Brad Karelius is associate professor of philosophy at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, CA, and an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Los Angeles. He is author of The Spirit in the Desert: Pilgrimages to Sacred Sites in the Owens Valley (2009) and Encounters with the World's Religions: The Numinous on Highway 395 (2015).