Lesley Hazleton

Lesley Hazleton (born 1945) is a British-American author Whose work focuses on “the solid and volatile arena in welke politics and religion Intersect.” Her latest book, Agnostic: A Spirited Manifesto, a Publishers Weekly most-Anticipated book or jump in 2016, [1] [2] was praised by The New York Times as “vital and mischievous” and as “wide-ranging … yet Intimately grounded in our human, day-to-day life. ” [3]

Hazleton to post Reported from Jerusalem for Time , and has written on the Middle East for numerous publications waaronder The New York Times , The New York Review of Books , Harper’s , The Nation , and The New Republic . [4]

Born in England , she was based in Jerusalem from 1966 to 1979 and in New York City from 1979 to 1992-when she moved to a floating home in Seattle , oorspronkelijk to get re pilot’s license, and became a US citizen. She has two degrees in psychology (BA Manchester University , MA Hebrew University of Jerusalem ). [5]

Hazleton has DESCRIBED herself as “a Jew who once seriously Considered Becoming a rabbi, a former convent school girl who daydreamed about being a nun, an Agnostic with a deep sense of religious mystery though no affinity for organized religion.” [6] “Everything is a paradox,” she has said. “The danger is one-dimensional thinking.” [7]

In April 2010, she launched The Accidental Theologist, [8] a blog casting “an Agnostic eye on religion, politics, and existence.” [9] In September 2011, she RECEIVED The Stranger ‘ s Genius Award in Literature [10] and in fall 2012, she was the Inaugural Scholar in-Residence at Town Hall Seattle . [11]

Books

On religion and politics:

  • Agnostic: A Spirited Manifesto [12] in 2016 (New York Times Editors’ Choice)
  • The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad [13] (New York Times Editors’ Choice)
  • After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split [14] (Finalist: 2010 PEN USA award book.) [15]
  • Jezebel: The Untold Story of the Bible’s Harlot Queen [16] (Finalist: 2008 Washington Book Award.) [17]
  • Mary: A Flesh-and-Blood Biography [18] (Winner: 2005 Washington Book Award.) [19]
  • Jerusalem, Jerusalem: A Memoir of War and Peace, Passion and Politics [20] (Winner: 1987 American Jewish Committee / Present Tense Book Award). [21]
  • Where Mountains Roar: a Personal Report from the Sinai [22]
  • Israeli Women: The Reality Behind the Myths [23]

Her other books include:

  • England, Bloody England: An Expatriate’s Return [24]
  • Confessions of a Fast Woman [25]
  • Driving to Detroit: An Automotive Odyssey [26]

TED talks

TEDGlobal 2013: The Essential Doubt to Faith. Thumbnail: “When Lesley Hazleton was writing a biography of Prophet Muhammad , she was struck by something: The night have RECEIVED the revelation of the Quran , volgens to early accounts, his first reaction was doubt, awe, even fear. And yet this experience became the bedrock of his belief. Hazleton calls for a new appreciation of doubt and Questioning as the foundation of faith – and an end to fundamentalisme or all kinds. ” [27]

TEDxRainier 2010: On Reading the Quran. Thumbnail: “Lesley Hazleton sat down one day to read the Koran. And what she found – as a non- Muslim , a self-indicated with” tourist “in the Islamic holy book – was not what she verwachte. With serious scholarship and warm humor, Hazleton shares the grace, flexibility and mystery she found, in this myth-debunking talk. ” [28]

TEDSummit 2016: “What we talk about-when we talk about soul,” due for release in fall 2016.

References

  1. Jump up^ http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/69297-the-most-anticipated-books-of-spring-2016.html
  2. Jump up^ http://www.publishersweekly.com/9781594634130
  3. Jump up^ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/17/books/review/putting-god-second-agnostic-and-more.html
  4. Jump up^ http://thefirstmuslim.com/?page_id=9
  5. Jump up^ “About the author.” “After the Prophet.” 2009. <http://www.aftertheprophet.com>
  6. Jump up^ Seattle Times26/10/07
  7. Jump up^ Publishers Weekly05/21/07
  8. Jump up^ Hazleton, Lesley. “The Accidental Theologist” . Retrieved 13 Jan 2011 .
  9. Jump up^ The Accidental Theologist / Who Is the AT? <Http://accidentaltheologist.com/about/>
  10. Jump up^ http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/lesley-hazleton/Content?oid=9936684
  11. Jump up^ http://townhallseattle.org/?s=Lesley+hazleton+&searchsubmit=Find
  12. Jump up^ http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/318162/agnostic-by-lesley-hazleton/9781594634130/
  13. Jump up^ http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-59448-728-6
  14. Jump up^ Hazleton, Lesley (2009). After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split . Doubleday. p. 256. ISBN  978-0-385-52393-6 .
  15. Jump up^ PEN USA <http://www.penusa.org/node/149>
  16. Jump up^ Hazleton, Lesley (2007). Jezebel: The Untold Story of the Bible’s Harlot Queen . Doubleday. p. 272. ISBN  978-0-385-51614-3 .
  17. Jump up^ Seattle Public Library <http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=about_leaders_washingtoncenter_awardwinners>
  18. Jump up^ Hazleton, Lesley (2004). Mary: A Flesh-and-Blood Biography of the Virgin Mother . Bloomsbury. p. 256. ISBN  978-1-58234-236-8 .
  19. Jump up^ Seattle Public Library <http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=about_leaders_washingtoncenter_awardwinners>
  20. Jump up^ Hazleton, Lesley (1986). Jerusalem, Jerusalem: A Memoir of War and Peace, Passion and Politics . Atlantic Monthly Press. p. 256. ISBN  978-0-14-010244-4 .
  21. Jump up^ New York Times <http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/11/books/awards-for-books-with-jewish-themes.html>
  22. Jump up^ Hazleton, Lesley (1980). Where Mountains Roar: a Personal Report from the Sinai . Holt Rinehart and Winston. p. 223. ISBN  978-0-03-045321-2 .
  23. Jump up^ Hazleton, Lesley (1979). Israeli Women: The Reality Behind the Myths . Simon and Schuster. p. 235. ISBN  978-0-671-22531-5 .
  24. Jump up^ Hazleton, Lesley (1990). England, Bloody England: An Expatriate’s Return . Atlantic Monthly Press. p. 205. ISBN  978-0-87113-329-8 .
  25. Jump up^ Hazleton, Lesley (1990). Confessions of a Fast Woman . Addison Wesley Publishing Company. p. 200. ISBN  978-0-201-63204-0 .
  26. Jump up^ Hazleton, Lesley (1998). Driving to Detroit: An Automotive Odyssey . Free Press. p. 320. ISBN  978-0-684-83987-5 .
  27. Jump up^ http://www.ted.com/talks/lesley_hazleton_the_doubt_essential_to_faith.html
  28. Jump up^ http://www.ted.com/talks/lesley_hazelton_on_reading_the_koran.html