87 ratings | 25 reviews | avg rating:4.20

Mark S. Ferrara’s Followers (2)

Mark’s Bookshelves

to-read (1)
currently-reading (0)
read (88)

Mark’s Friends (9)

Siying Dong

277 books | 120 friends

Old Salt

619 books | 4 friends

Jonna Higgins-Freese

5,542 books | 56 friends

Harrie Harrison

1,077 books | 31 friends

Alina Yasnaya

879 books | 25 friends

Michele Young-Stone

120 books | 596 friends

Meagan

140 books | 16 friends

Daniel Abbott

419 books | 427 friends

More friends…

Mark S. Ferrara

Goodreads Author

Born

Syracuse, New York, The United States

Genre

History, Memoir, Religion

Member Since

June 2020

edit data

Mark S. Ferrara is author of seven books, including Palace of Ashes (Johns Hopkins UP), Sacred Bliss (Rowman & Littlefield), American Community (Rutgers UP), and The Raging Erie (forthcoming with Columbia UP). A professor of English at State University of New York, Ferrara has taught for universities in South Korea, China, and on a Fulbright scholarship in Turkey.

Learn more
Ask the Author

To ask Mark S. Ferrara questions, please sign up.

Combine Editions
Mark S. Ferrara’s books

Average rating: 3.64 · 36 ratings · 4 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Sacred Bliss: A Spiritual History of Cannabis 3.79 avg rating — 19 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Palace of Ashes: China and the Decline of American Higher Education 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Between Noble and Humble: Cao Xueqin and the Dream of the Red Chamber- Edited by Ronald R. Gray and Mark S. Ferrara- Translated by Liangmei Bao and Kyongsook Park by Ruchang Zhou, Liangmei Bao (Translator), Kyongsook Park (Translator) 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Barack Obama and the Rhetoric of Hope 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Community: Radical Experiments in Intentional Living 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Seeds of Profit: Business Heroes, Corporate Villains, and the Future of American Capitalism it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Living the Food-Allergic Life 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	living the food allergic life 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Raging Erie: Life and Labor Along the Erie Canal by Mark S. Ferrara (Goodreads Author), Jack De Golia (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by Mark S. Ferrara…

Quotes by Mark S. Ferrara (?)

“During the Last Judgment in Zoroastrianism, at the end of time, Mithra initiates the final sorting of souls according to deed. This event includes a celestial haoma (soma) sacrifice that ushers in a restoration of an earthly paradise where death is forever vanquished.”
― Mark S. Ferrara, Sacred Bliss: A Spiritual History of Cannabis

1 likes

“Zoroaster believed that an individual’s fate was determined by free will, and not heavenly mandate. After the death of the human body, the soul was believed to make its way to a river of fire where the god Mithra—flanked by two celestial beings holding aloft the scales of justice—judged every soul based on its thoughts, words, and deeds in the human world.”
― Mark S. Ferrara, Sacred Bliss: A Spiritual History of Cannabis

1 likes

“In his exculpation of the “erotic poetry” read at Sufi gatherings, Al-Ghazālī warns those with shallow spiritual insight from disparaging the ecstasies experienced by the Sufis. “A wise man, though he himself may have no experience of those states,” Al-Ghazālī writes, will not deny the “reality of a thing merely because he himself has not experienced it!”
― Mark S. Ferrara, Sacred Bliss: A Spiritual History of Cannabis

0 likes

See all Mark S. Ferrara's quotes »