Bruce Feiler

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October 25, 1964 in Savannah, Georgia, The United States

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Religion & Spirituality, History

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Bruce Feiler is a writer on social issues and, particularly more recently, on religion. He tends to write in an accessible, conversational style, blending travelogue, interviews, autobiography, and personal musings with history and archaeology. He writes on religion from a progressive point of view. Some of his back catalog of books was republished in paperback after the commercial success of his Walking the Bible (2001). He hosted a television version with the same name, shown on PBS.

He is credited with formulating the Feiler Faster Thesis: the increasing pace of society and journalists' ability to report it is matched by the public's desire for more information.

Feiler is a native of Savannah, Georgia, and now lives in New York City with h...more

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Books by Bruce Feiler

Average rating: 3.71 · 3,912 ratings · 829 reviews · 23 distinct works

	Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses 3.82 avg rating — 1,078 ratings — published 2001 — 25 editions	My rating:
	Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths 3.61 avg rating — 1,034 ratings — 22 editions	My rating:
	The Council of Dads: My Daughters, My Illness, and the Men Who Could Be Me 3.73 avg rating — 530 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan 3.65 avg rating — 580 ratings — published 1991 — 8 editions	My rating:
	America's Prophet: Moses and the American Story 3.65 avg rating — 197 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Where God Was Born: A Daring Adventure Through the Bible's Greatest Stories 3.81 avg rating — 264 ratings — 17 editions	My rating:
	Under the Big Top: A Season with the Circus 3.75 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Looking for Class: Days and Nights at Oxford and Cambridge 3.32 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Generation Freedom: The Middle East Uprisings and the Future of Faith 3.56 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Dreaming Out Loud: Garth Brooks, Wynonna Judd, Wade Hayes, And The Changing Face Of Nashville 2.94 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions	My rating:

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“...I had always believed that I left a bit of me wherever I went. I also believed that I took a bit of every place with me. I never felt that more than with this trip. It was as if the act of touching these places, walking these roads,and asking these questions had added another column to my being. And the only possible explanation I could find for that feeling was that a spirit existed in many of the places I visited, and a spirit existed in me and the two had somehow met in the course of my travels. It's as if the godliness of the land and the godliness of my being had fused.”
― Bruce Feiler

tags: history , inspirational , travel

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“There is profundity to explore, but also laundry to do.”
― Bruce Feiler, The Council of Dads: My Daughters, My Illness, and the Men Who Could Be Me

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“In the end I believe the essential spirit that animates those places animates me. If that spirit is God, then I found God...If that spirit is life, then I found life...If that spirit is awe, then I found awe. Part of me suspects it's all three...all I had to do to discover that spirit and the resulting feeling of humility and appreciation was not to look or listen or taste or feel. All I had to do was remember, for what I was looking for I somehow already knew.”
― Bruce Feiler

tags: history , inspirational , travel

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