White Cloud Press: 63 books
All-American
45 American Men on Being Muslim
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
Follow up work to White Cloud's successful and highly acclaimed May 2011 book I Speak For Myself: American Women on Being Muslim. With this second book in the I Speak For Myself series, American Muslim men speak out on their lives and how their Muslim beliefs play out in private and on the public...
The Poetry of Yoga
Light Pouring from Pens
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Hafiz, Gibran, Neruda, Rumi . . . their yoga mats were blank pieces of paper; they did asana with pencils between their fingers; their pranayama was inverted metaphor; and their Samadhi was uninhibited, naked poetry. Yoga is a journey, an intricate dance of mind, body, breath, and spirit. It is cultivation...
The Buddha
The Story of an Awakened Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
A simple, uplifting telling of the life of Buddha by an award-winning, best-selling author. This is the first account of the Buddha story that does not separate, but blends the elements of history, apochrypha, and the Buddhist tenets into a compelling, page-turning narrative: it establishes Buddha...
Structure and Qur'anic Interpretation
A Study of Symmetry and Coherence in Islam's Holy Text
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2014
The Qur'an, Islam's holy book, is widely misunderstood because it is a difficult book to engage. The Qur'an is not written as a straightforward narrative like the Christian Gospels but is composed of discontinuous revelations that are often unclear in placing in an overall context. Structure and Qur’anic...
Embrace Your Inner Wild
52 Reflections for an Eco-Centric World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Embrace Your Inner Wild: 52 Reflections for an Eco-Centric World is a brilliant, full-color book of photographs and reflections that invite you to seek out wildness wherever you find it within or without.
Don Moseman’s spectacular photographs feature the wildlife and terrain of Marin County,...
The Muslim Next Door
The Qur'an, the Media, and That Veil Thing
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
- Bronze Medal Winner of the Independent Publishers Award 2009 -
Since 9/11, stories about Muslims and the Islamic world have flooded headlines, politics, and water-cooler conversations all across the country. And, although Americans hear about Islam on a daily basis, there remains no clear...
The Language of Tears
My Journey into the World of Shi'i Muslim Women
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2015
The Language of Tears details the engaging five-year experience of a gifted American scholar throughout her journey teaching and participating in a Shi’a Muslim community in Southern California. As a teacher in a Muslim school, she participates in the lives of Iranian, Iraqi, and Pakistani women...
Talking Taboo
American Christian Women Get Frank About Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
American Christian Women under 40 are being theologically trained in unprecedented numbers, accessing leadership in their communities through both orthodox and unorthodox avenues, and balancing the roles of professional, wife, mother, girlfriend, and friend. With all of the perceived progress, why...
Father Factor
American Christian Men on Fatherhood and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Father Factor explores the intersection between faith and fatherhood, probing the resonance and dissonance created when men examine fatherhood in all its permutations, and how it is informed by and informs their faith.
There are a wide variety of Christian faith perspectives represented in...
Quarreling with God
Mystic Rebel Poems of the Dervishes of Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
This collection presents, for the first time in English, a compilation of seven centuries of the mystic hymns of Turkey’s rebellious Sufi poets. At the time Rumi was writing in ancient Anatolia, many other great mystics in the region were also composing wild, ecstatic, and controversial poems that...
I Speak for Myself
American Women on Being Muslim
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Muslim American women are the subject of endless discussions regarding their role in society, their veils as symbols of oppression or of freedom, their identity, their patriotism, their womanhood. Yet the voices and life experiences of Muslim American women themselves are rarely heard in the loud...
Everything Starts from Prayer
Mother Teresa's Meditations on Spiritual Life for People of All Faiths
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
At the Home for the Dying in Calcutta, Mother Teresa often cared for the residents as they approached the end. As she was ministering to one illness-ravaged man, a visitor overheard her whisper a few words to him. These few words embody some of Mother Teresa’s most wonderful wisdom. This is what...
The Beloved
Reflections on the Path of the Heart
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
Exquisite writings on love, marriage, and the spiritual union of souls add a fresh dimension to our understanding of the philosophy of love and the transformation of one's life through its all-encompassing power.
by Kahlil Gibran
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul brings together Kahlil Gibran's Arabic writings concerned with the spiritual life. In twenty-four meditations, essays, and prose poems, Gibran expounds his unique philosophy of life while discussing such perennial themes as Beauty, Nature, Hidden Realities,...