Books by Kyriacos C. Markides and Complete Book Reviews
Kyriacos C. Markides, Author . Doubleday $22.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-385-50091-3
Markides, a Maine sociologist who was raised in the Greek Orthodox faith and later drifted into agnosticism, continues his spiritual journey homeward in this collection of captivating conversations with the monk Father Maximos. The book is set on...
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Kyriacos C. Markides, Author Paragon House Publishers $18.95 (306p) ISBN 978-1-55778-160-4
Daskalos, a Greek Christian mystic of ``unimaginable psychic power,'' and his disciple, Kostas, are the subjects of this credulity-straining report. Based in Cyprus, they communicate with an archangel who once lived on Earth as St. John, author of...
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Kyriacos C. Markides, Author Doubleday Books $24.95 (370p) ISBN 978-0-385-50663-2
Markides, a sociology professor who has written extensively about healers and mystics, resumes his exploration of Eastern Orthodox Christianity by taking readers on pilgrimages to places as diverse as Sedona, Ariz., and the Greek island of Patmos....
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Kyriacos C. Markides, Author Arkana $0 (236p) ISBN 978-1-85063-072-2
In the tradition of Carlos Castenada's tales of an academic confounded and converted by a ""primitive'' spiritual teacher, Markides, a professor of sociology at the University of Maine, here continues the account begun in his 1985 title, The Magus...
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Kyriacos C. Markides, Author Viking Books $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-670-85780-7
The journeys of contemporary spiritual seekers are often marked by the search not only for the soul's home but also for a true leader who, like Dante's Virgil, can accompany them on their quest of self-discovery. Markides here provides a kind of...
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