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Golden States of Grace: Prayers of the Disinherited

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Producer(s)	Rick Nahmias
Director(s)	Rick Nahmias
Release Date	2010
Work In Progress	No
Runtime	12 min
Format(s)	none
Language(s)	English
Youth Media	No

Film Description

Golden States of Grace brings together such depth and diversity of faith and humanity, that it is seems three- dimensional. It is hard to think of another body of work which looks so compassionately at the faces and voices of disinherited peoples while asking us to think deeply about how we own or disown those on the margins. This is a book for anyone who has ever felt left out, pushed out, or just wondered what it feels like to be on the outside that is, a book for all of us.
—Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking

Taking California as a window into the diversity of religion in America, Golden States of Grace documents marginalized communities at prayer in their own faith traditions. The collection is thoroughly interfaith, introducing us to the nation’s only halfway house for addicts self-identified as Jewish, a transsexual gospel choir, a Buddhist community in San Quentin, a Mormon congregation organized by the deaf for the deaf, Latina sex workers worshipping the female folk deity Santisima Muerte, and more. Depictions of conventional middle-class religion are widely visible in the media, but the American public rarely sees the sacred worlds of society’s marginalized: the outcasts, the fallen, those that have been labeled other ironically, those whom religion aims to serve. The poignant stories Nahmias has gathered here cross numerous boundaries and ask difficult questions few outsiders have been willing to pose.

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Last Updated On:	February 04, 2011