
Educating for Solitude: A Conversation with William Deresiewicz
New Books in Higher Education
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The Relationship Between Religious Faith and Loneliness
In the latter part of your book, you get pretty personal talking about your relationship with Judaism. Do you see a connection between those kinds of falls from faith and the struggles that people have with solitude? I think what you're suggesting is that religious faith can cultivate some of the qualities that I want people to be able to cultivate. There are lots of reasons to believe that it's not really going to happen.
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