Spirituality for the godless, Mcghee, Michael (university Of Liverpool)
Автор: Idel, Moshe Название: Mircea eliade ISBN: 1433120127 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433120121 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 42040.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Mircea Eliade: From Magic to Myth addresses a series of topics that have been neglected in scholarship. First and foremost, the book looks at the early Romanian background of some of Eliade’s ideas, especially his magical universe, which took on a more mythical nature with his arrival in the West. Other chapters deal with Eliade’s attitude toward Judaism, which is crucial for his phenomenology of religion, and the influences of Kabbalah on his early work. Later chapters address his association with the Romanian extreme right movement known as the Iron Guard and the reverberation of some of the images in the post-war Eliade as well as with the status of Romanian culture in his eyes after World War II. The volume concludes by assessing the impact of Eliade’s personal experiences on the manner in which he presented religion. The book will be useful in classes in the history of religion and the history of Eastern European intellectuals.
Автор: Idel, Moshe Название: Mircea eliade ISBN: 1433120135 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433120138 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 150730.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Mircea Eliade: From Magic to Myth addresses a series of topics that have been neglected in scholarship. First and foremost, the book looks at the early Romanian background of some of Eliade’s ideas, especially his magical universe, which took on a more mythical nature with his arrival in the West. Other chapters deal with Eliade’s attitude toward Judaism, which is crucial for his phenomenology of religion, and the influences of Kabbalah on his early work. Later chapters address his association with the Romanian extreme right movement known as the Iron Guard and the reverberation of some of the images in the post-war Eliade as well as with the status of Romanian culture in his eyes after World War II. The volume concludes by assessing the impact of Eliade’s personal experiences on the manner in which he presented religion. The book will be useful in classes in the history of religion and the history of Eastern European intellectuals.
Автор: Jeffrey S. Bennett Название: When the Sun Danced: Myth, Miracles and Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Portugal ISBN: 0813932491 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813932491 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 30490.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Between May and October of 1917, three young shepherds were reportedly visited six times by an apparition of the Virgin Mary near the town of Fatima in Portugal. At the final apparition event, approximately 70,000 visitors gathered to witness a prophesied miracle intended to convince the public that the children's visions were of divine origin. The miracle took the form of a solar anomaly; witnesses claimed that the sun began to ""dance."" Exploring the early development of the cult of the Virgin of Fatima and the overthrow of the liberal, secular government by pro-Catholic elements, Jeffrey Bennett offers the first book-length scholarly study of the cult's relationship to the rise of authoritarian politics in Portugal.
When the Sun Danced offers a fascinating look at the cultural dynamics that informed one of the most turbulent periods in the nation's history.
Автор: Solari-Twadell, Phyllis Ann, editor Название: Faith Community Nursing ISBN: 3030161250 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030161255 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 79190.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A multi-authored book, with editors and authors who are leaders in Faith Community Nursing (FCN) that aims to address contemporary issues in faith-based, whole person, community based health offering cost effective, accessible, patient centered care along the patient continuum while challenging contemporary health policy to include more health promotion services. Twenty-five chapters take the reader from a foundational understanding of this historic grass-roots movement to the present day international specialty nursing practice. The book is structured into five sections that describe both the historical advancement of the Faith Community Nursing, its current implications and future challenges, taking into account the perspectives of the pastor, congregation, nurse, health care system and public health national and international organizations.
The benefits of this book are that it is intended for a mixed audience including lay, academic, medical professionals or health care executives. By changing the mindset of the reader to see the nurse as more than providing illness care, the faith community as more than a place one goes to on Sunday and health as more than physical, creative alternatives for promoting health emerge through Faith Community Nursing.
Автор: Baksh Kayume Название: Science and Spirituality... bridging the gap ISBN: 1525548786 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781525548789 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 18380.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This book provides a fascinating, well-researched, and thorough discussion of the connections between science and spirituality, including religion. It is eye-opening and allows readers to truly redefine how they look at these disciplines while providing, at the same time, a vibrant perspective for those embarking on such an exercise for the first time.
Science investigates the physical world, where space, time, and matter comprise the main aspects of its empirical approach, that is, of physically proving all that there is around us. Spirituality goes beyond the physical. Here, physical quantities become nonexistent and so our connections are perceived through seemingly nonrational (but hardly irrational) unscientific means. Religion is rendered useless as a way of explaining how the universe works. Quantum mechanics, an integral part of modern physics, is helping to bring about a closer convergence by showing remarkable similarities between advanced scientific observations and what has been taught for centuries in the wisdom traditions, known as spirituality; this insightful information continues to amaze us like none before.
We now have the right combination and evidence to show why the gap between science and spirituality must be bridged, so that we can finally embrace the answers to the mystery questions about the universe and life. This thought-provoking book provides the details you need.
We stand on the verge of heralding a new paradigm or, rather, a metaparadigm - the mother of all paradigms - one that unfolds a new vision of reality that includes consciousness for the first time, not excludes it - as science still does.
Whether you belong to a religion or not, are a spiritualist, an atheist, an agnostic, or just curious about the universe and life, this book is for you....
Автор: Lawton Ian Название: Afterlife: a modern guide to the unseen realms ISBN: 0957257376 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780957257375 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 25730.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Do you want to know what it's really like to die? Would you like a modern guide to the inevitable? Thanks to brave out-of-body explorers, now you can prepare yourself... with the most reliable information that's ever been available.
For millennia various prophets, gurus, visionaries and mystics have given us descriptions of what happens after death. Their tales of assorted heavens and hells have inspired and terrified in equal measure. But their use of symbolism and archaic language can be baffling. What's more the reliability of their accounts is questionable.
Increasingly in the modern world ordinary people have shared their 'near-death experiences' of entering 'the light', and of meeting friends, relatives, guides or angels. But it's equally debatable how much of the true picture these one-off experiences can reveal, because they involve so much subjective interpretation. Enter the pioneering 'out-of-body' explorers who, in the last half century especially, have repeatedly and deliberately expanded their consciousness to experience other planes of reality. Once the inevitable subjective differences have been removed, their experiments show some remarkable underlying consistencies.
Now these reports can be brought together to produce a simple, state-of-the-art guide to an afterlife we'll all experience sooner or later. One that contains myriad possibilities. These range from various heavens created by the collective human expectations of different religious groups, to personal hells where misguided souls insist on punishing themselves. To those involved these experiences appear just as real as the physical life we're in now, yet all represent varying degrees of illusion.
Most of us enter the afterlife in ignorance. But if you're ready to take advantage of modern discoveries, this is a guide that will dispel the illusions and free your soul to expand into realms previously attained only by the few. Realms of supreme lucidity, awareness, unity... and, above all, love.
Автор: Ephirim-Donkor Anthony Название: African Personality and Spirituality: The Role of Abosom and Human Essence ISBN: 149852124X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498521246 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 38610.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book is a revealing and insightful study about Gods and Goddesses (Abosom) as key to unlocking the mystery of the human being. Thus, this book will be of interest to Africanists, African Americanists, those interested in black spirituality and hermeneutics, cultural anthropologists, and scholars of religion and theology.
This is a book that is devoted to helping inquiring spiritual thinkers find a path of genuine spirituality that leads them into spiritual growth and true harmony with the Divine.
Three imaginary characters intensely and passionately debate questions concerning the reliability of Judeo-Christian scriptures, questions about whether the concept of original sin (in the Garden of Eden) is a viable concept for the twenty-first century, etc.
Intense debates flare over questions about sexual morality, whether Pauline theology can be regarded as credible in our age of scientific knowledge, whether Heaven and Hell are real, and numerous other issues that are of vital concern to spiritual seekers.
The three debaters in these dialogues are: 1) An independent spiritual seeker, 2) A Christian apologist -- devoted to a defense of mainstream Christianity, and 3) A devoted skeptic who questions all things religious or spiritual.
If you are a spiritual seeker, one who finds that the materialist/secularist scientific paradigm for all reality leaves you cold, this book can engagingly point you in the direction of ever-deepening spiritual insights that will enable you to progressively advance toward genuine harmony with Ultimate Reality -- the Creator and Ruler of our wondrous universe.
This book can show you that you need never to abandon intelligence, logic, science, or clear and rational thinking in order to attain a profound spirituality. True spirituality need not be imprisoned in the straitjackets of dogmatic or narrow thinking about reality. The Divine whom you can learn to serve faithfully and devotedly does not demand of you a repudiation of your God-given intellect, and God is never scared of humble and earnest questions. It was not stated flippantly nor erroneously that in regard to true spirituality, "Seek and you shall find; knock and the door will be opened to you".
Many of the claims made in this book incorporate the conviction that one must not necessarily buy into the theology of any extant organized religion, but can have a "direct line" to the Creator, receiving thereby inspiration, encouragement, empowerment, inner peace, and growth toward spiritual perfection.
For many in our "scientifically enlightened" age, religion is pushed into the "backwaters", and passionate devotion to spirituality is regarded as passe. This need not be so, because the Divine permeates every atom in this universe, and the energy that sustains the universe is also highly willing to inspire, direct, and guide your life. We need not settle for science as the "new god", because powerful though it is as a wonderful instrument, it is nevertheless constrained by the limitations of human powers and our relatively puny intellects.
Your life can transcend what science has to offer, because science is bereft of powers to master the mind and the spirit of humanity.
By availing yourself of the hints and guidelines offered in this book, you can discover a glorious path of growing inner peace and joys that transcend the powers of human understanding. Freedom of your will opens for you the door to genuine choice -- a choice that could (potentially) have the significance of Heaven versus Hell.
Автор: Bela Sharma Название: Sai Baba: An Incarnation ISBN: 8120788338 ISBN-13(EAN): 9788120788336 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 11430.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: God is omnipresent. He is an integral part of each speck, every being, living and non-living, in fact the entire creation. We, mortal beings, are not able to assimilate this indivisible, self-illuminative Divine form of the Lord as we are bound to a body. We only take as real what we can see, feel or touch, while the Lord God is an experience, a feel, love, lightthe very identity of each atom, that is, our awakened inner self. Human life has been assigned to us to discover and tread the path of salvation. This indeed is our true mission. To fructify the same, to wake us from the deep sleep of Maya, to make us tread the path of spirituality, God binds Himself to a body and appears on earth as an incarnation hence introducing us mortals to His omnipresence. The leelas performed by the incarnation of God, nurture humanity, show us our true face as human beings, introducing the soul within to the Super Soul. The hidden reality of this entire creation is concealed in these simple leelas, the so-called deeds of the incarnation, each word spoken by this Godly form. This book is a small effort to focus on some such deeper messages of the Lord. The task is entirely undertaken by the Lord Himself; this body is merely a means to obey and execute His commands.
Автор: A R Nanda Название: Eternal Sai Consciousness ISBN: 812079043X ISBN-13(EAN): 9788120790438 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 9990.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The Eternal Sai Consciousness attempts to unravel the nature of Sai Consciousness in context of the spiritual doctrines in ancient Upanishads, Puranas and Shastras of the Vedic Sanatan Dharma, as well as the holy books of Jainism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and Sikhism. It analyses and brings home the unique confluence of universal truths of the major world religions and faiths through the splendid ideas of Sufism, Kabir and other great thinkers, and Shirdi Sai Babas teachings as well as His heritage. Shri Nanda shares the eternal nature of the Sai Consciousness and links it to earlier Prophets, Saints and Sadgurus and the unceasing flow of the consciousness in the mind, heart and intellect of ardent devotees in many ways. The root and flow of the Supreme Consciousness have been introduced through subtle concepts like profiles of Bhakti and Dhyana, as well as mystic-spiritual truths (tattwas) around Sadguru, creation process, the subject of death, etc. The book can serve as a useful document for Sai devotees, researchers and students of spiritual themes, who wish to explore the nature of Consciousness and Self-Realisation further.
Автор: Paul Beauchamp Название: Psalms Night and Day ISBN: 1626007063 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781626007062 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 29570.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This is one of Paul Beauchamp`s most popular books, and has been translated into several languages. It is here offered for the first time in English. Peter Rogers, rector of the Jesuit community in New Orleans, has devoted much time and attention to the translation. The result of his dedication is this beautiful presentation and appreciation of selected Psalms in ways accessible to everyone.
