Rachel Cowan (1941–2018)
Auteur de Mixed Blessings: Overcoming the Stumbling Blocks in an Interfaith Marriage
A propos de l'auteur
Rachel Cowan was born Rachel Ann Brown in Princeton, New Jersey on May 29, 1941. She received a bachelor's degree from Bryn Mawr College and a master's in social work from the University of Chicago. In 1963, she met her future husband Paul Cowan while she was tutoring black children bound for newly afficher plus integrated schools in Maryland. They married in 1965 and together registered black voters in Mississippi and served in the Peace Corps in Ecuador. They began exploring Judaism in their mid-30s. She converted in 1980 and became a Rabbi. Rabbi Cowan was a leader in helping couples navigate the shoals of mixed marriage, injecting contemplative practices like meditation and mindfulness into religious life, and designing healing services to comfort the sick and dying. She was the program director for Jewish life of the Nathan Cummings Foundation for 14 years. She left in 2004 to run the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. She wrote several books including Growing Up Yanqui and Mixed Blessings: Overcoming the Stumbling Blocks in an Interfaith Marriage written with her husband. She died from brain cancer on August 31, 2018 at the age of 77. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Rachel Cowan
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1941
- Date de décès
- 2018-08-31
- Sexe
- female
- Professions
- rabbi
social worker - Relations
- Cowan, Paul (spouse)
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 140
- Popularité
- #146,473
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 5
The book was written in a1987, when about 35 percent of American Jews married non-Jews; today the number is much higher and the intermarriage has become more accepted by families and many religious communities. It is not entirely clear how the Cowans define what it means to be Jewish; certainly many of the Jews in the book identify ethnically, but not religiously.
Paul Cowan is the first-person narrator; his wife, Rachel, was busy in rabbinical school. As explained in the preface, Paul wrote and Rachel edited. Paul is also the author of An Orphan in History.… (plus d'informations)