Creating Life Before Death: Discover Your Amazing Self

REVIEW BY MOHAMMAD H. TAMDGIDI, PH.D. (FORMER ASSOC. PROF. OF SOCIOLOGY, UMASS BOSTON): "In the just-published Creating Life Before Death: Discover Your Amazing Self (2020), the authors draw on their own everyday life-stories to advance an interdisciplinary and liberating applied sociology in the spirit of C. Wright Mills’s “sociological imagination” (1959).Phillips, mentored by Mills, sees the personal evolution of the individual as the foundation for building a just society, free of the social problems facing humanity today. Prominent sociologist Jonathan Turner has written a thoughtful Foreword, noticing in the simple everyday life stories shared by the authors (some of which can bring you laughter, literally in stitches!) the profound message of the powers of mind, heart, and hand in creating life, both within and without. You will laugh and cry with their authors, as they try to teach you that sociology does not have to be solely an academic thing, one that you finish taking in school and then go on with your life. Co-authors include Tom Savage, a minister for 23 years & a Sheriff's Lieutenant for 25 years. When Phillips contacted me to support my newly published Liberating Sociology (2020), I told him that his support was as good as Mills coming back to life to tap me on the back for trying to keep alive and advance the sociological imagination. " Stories include The wedding from hell, The cops are already here, dude, Wearing a dress, German Shepherds hate colored people, The case of the K-9 disaster, The Preacher's Tale, The Scholar's Tale, There is a God now! I hereby declare you are divorced, New England Patriots' productivity, Two drunks in a graveyard, Bob Newhart on shakedown cruise, Victor Borge and Six-up, As I was going to St. Ives, Henny Youngman: 'Take my wife,' Woody Allen and automation, Citizen Kane and Rosebud, Growing up in Gopher Prairie, Jack Benny buying a watch, Aida and Charles Collins, Wizard of Oz, Tosca guards leap into Tiber, Breaking the Enigma Code, I'm mad as hell, and I'm not taking it anymore, Letter to Ann Landers, Fire in a Franciscan monastery, Mrs. Feinstein is in bed with the doctor,The theatre of life, Saved from drowning in the church, Bus with black children, You've killed your baby sister! George Dunkins' heart attack, Asleep at the wheel, The pizza was delicious, Free the birds, 5 cents, Check out a person, Buddhist monk abandons son, What happened to the horses? Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and The Lone Ranger vs. the William Tell overture. Phillips's invited and featured essays in Contemporary Sociology (July 2019 & May 2020) are based on the book.
      
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