Oprah: prophet, priestess ... Queen?
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| Title: | Oprah: prophet, priestess ... Queen? |
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| Source: | Record, The (Kitchener/Cambridge/Waterloo, ON). 01/12/2018. |
| Abstract: | In the fall of 2014, Oprah Winfrey ran a "transformative two-day live event," a travelling road show that was held in eight cities around the country. For this interactive revival-tent experience, she was joined by her "hand-picked life trailblazers," authors and personalities whose work she considered essential for the theme of the road show, "The Life You Want." The trailblazers included, among others, Iyanla Vanzant, a spiritual teacher of New Thought, a 19th-century movement with links to Christian Science that emphasizes the idea of God as "infinite intelligence" and the human capacity to think our way toward godlike power; Rob Bell, an erstwhile evangelical megachurch pastor who has reinvented himself as an itinerant preacher of the vaguest sort of Christianity; Elizabeth Gilbert, author of "Eat Pray Love," the megaselling memoir about finding religious ecstasy in India (as well as great pasta in Italy and a hot romance in Bali); Mark Nepo, the poet-philosopher author of "The Book of Awakening" and other tracts on the spirituality of the everyday; and of course Deepak Chopra, the aging prince of the New Age. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
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