2006 News Archive

Religion Writer Gets in Touch With the Feminine Side of Faith

In her new book, Four Women, Three Faiths, journalist Cecile Holmes writes about some of the more remarkable personalities she has encountered in her long career as a religion reporter. Despite their vast differences, each of the women profiled is a true servant of her faith, and Holmes devotes much energy toward describing their direct impact on her own spiritual growth.

Four Women serves as a hymn to diversity and interfaith acceptance. You will meet P.K. McCary, the author of Black Bible Chronicles, a translation of the Bible into the language of America’s urban streets; Phoebe Griswold, wife of the presiding bishop of the Episcopal church, who helped with the Ground Zero relief effort in September 2001; Arunima Sinha, founder of a Hindu temple in Columbia, South Carolina, and interfaith dialogue advocate; and Riffat Hassan, a religious studies professor and Muslim feminist who campaigns on behalf of women across the Islamic world.

Holmes makes good use of her access to these remarkable personalities. She utilizes each of these captivating women as a mirror, reflecting her own soul and her own search for female vindication in the eyes of God.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Cecile S. Holmes is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of South Carolina in her native Columbia.  Before entering academia, Holmes had a long and distinguished career with the Houston Chronicle, where she was a religion reporter who met and interviewed such figures as the Dalai Lama and Pope John Paul II.

For more information, contact Michael Hunley at (706) 738-0354 or mhunley@harborhousebooks.com