Contemporary Spiritualities : Social and Religious Contexts.
Title:
Contemporary Spiritualities : Social and Religious Contexts.
Author:
Erricker, Clive.
ISBN:
9780826484376
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (273 pages)
Series:
Issues in Contemporary Religion
Contents:
Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I: Influential Writers and Thinkers -- 1 Influential writers and thinkers: a retrospective reconsideration and a contemporary contextualization -- 2 Mysticism and contemporary society: some Teilhardian reflections -- 3 Bede Griffiths and the one universal reality -- 4 Thomas Merton: monk for the contemporary world -- 5 Jiddu Krishnamurti and the open secret -- 6 The Dalai Lama: dimensions of spirituality -- 7 Carol Christ: feminist spirituality and narrative thealogy -- Part II: Faith Communities -- 8 Faith communities: spiritual diversity, hope and tension in the modern world -- 9 In the realm of the deathless: the Thai Buddhist Forest Retreat Order -- 10 A society in transition: ISKCON's spiritual path -- 11 The Amish: case study of a religious community -- 12 'Until the power of the Lord comes down': African American Pentecostal spirituality and tarrying -- 13 Taizé: a global and postcolonial theology of community -- 14 The diaspora of the Khoja Shi'a Ithnasheeries -- 15 Street spirituality: a narrative case study of a street community -- Bibliography -- Name index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Subject index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
Spirituality can be understood within both a religious and secular context. Fuelled by the controversy that surrounds different understandings of human identity and notions of progress, knowledge and truth in modernist and postmodernist contexts, the concept of spirituality is a hotly contested topic of debate as to its relevance within contemporary culture and its meaning within religious traditions. This book aims to inform readers on this debate and contextualize it within these different frames of reference. It approaches the topic of spirituality with an identification of the major influences on contemporary thinking and presents a coherent framework of understanding that links divergent thinking into a common goal. Writings range across different thinkers and practitioners within established religious tradition, contemporary movements and those who operate within psychological and 'secular' understandings. Focusing on the question 'what does it mean to be human?' this engaging study attempts to overcome the divide between secular and religious understandings of spirituality.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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