Helpful Score: 1
For its purpose, it's a decent book. The author's intent is to present different options for the reader to consider when putting together a personal "altar". She first explains what an altar is, which can be sacred space, a space conducive to meditation and/or prayer, or simply a point of focus.
She presents many formats that an altar can be configured, which she calls "game boards". When the author uses this term she means to encourage personalization, not that it is a place to play. Each chapter represents a different numerical setup, so chapter 1 is about using the altar as a single space, whereas chapter 3 talks about how to divide the altar into three distinct section. It goes up to 9.
Several traditions are pulled from to give the reader an idea of what they could do, including: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, Greco-Roman, Norse, Egyptian, and "Native American" along with many others.
As mentioned in the beginning of my review, the author's intention was to provide ideas and options. That part was done well. I felt that the author didn't get deep enough into any of them to be truly helpful to the reader, though.
She presents many formats that an altar can be configured, which she calls "game boards". When the author uses this term she means to encourage personalization, not that it is a place to play. Each chapter represents a different numerical setup, so chapter 1 is about using the altar as a single space, whereas chapter 3 talks about how to divide the altar into three distinct section. It goes up to 9.
Several traditions are pulled from to give the reader an idea of what they could do, including: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, Greco-Roman, Norse, Egyptian, and "Native American" along with many others.
As mentioned in the beginning of my review, the author's intention was to provide ideas and options. That part was done well. I felt that the author didn't get deep enough into any of them to be truly helpful to the reader, though.
