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A Nation Wrestles With God

By Ilan Stavans
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A landmark collection of the philosophers and firebrands who sparked a country's journey through divinity—praising, challenging, and redefining the sacred.

Spanning more than 400 years of spiritual transformation and imagination, A Nation Wrestles With God collects diverse writers—poets, novelist, theologians, scientist, musicians, politicians, comedians, artists, mavericks, naturalist, futurists, and more—whose daring texts incited change and continue to influence a growing nation. In this anthology, you will find the stories, letters, speeches, sermons, and essays, as well as song lyrics, comic strips, newspaper columns, and blog posts, that awoke new generations to free religious thought, from the pre-colonial to the present day. 

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About Ilan Stavans

Ilan Stavans is the publisher of Restless Books and the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His books include On Borrowed Words, Spanglish, Dictionary Days, The Disappearance, and A Critic’s Journey. He has edited The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature, the three-volume set Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories, and The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, among dozens of other volumes. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Chile’s Presidential Medal, the International Latino Book Award, and the Jewish Book Award. Stavans’s work, translated into twenty languages, has been adapted to the stage and screen.

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