CONTENTS

FOREWORD

Betty Sue Flowers

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

TEXT CREDITS

1. Introducing Reverence

2. Without Reverence

3. Music and a Funeral

4. Bare Reverence

5. Ancient Greece: The Way of Being Human

6. Ancient China: The Way of Power

7. Reverence Without a Creed

8. Reverence Across Religions

9. Relativism

10. Sacred Things

11. The Reverent Leader

12. Compassion

13. The Silent Teacher

14. Home

15. Epilogue: Renewing Reverence

NOTES

WORKS CITED

INDEX AND GLOSSARY OF PROPER NAMES