Spiritualism Books

Book SynopsisThis handbook provides a comprehensive survey of current scholarship on Anabaptist and Spiritualist history and theology from 1521 to 1700. Since the last half of the twentieth century, the historiography of the Radical Reformation has been the focus of vigorous and creative debate. The volume–broadly cast in terms of geographic scope and topical coverage–carefully untangles the fluid boundaries of Spiritualism and Anabaptism in Early Modern European history. In addition to a narrative summary, each chapter also provides a bibliography of sources and current scholarship, and concludes with suggestions for future research. This handbook will serve a generation of students as the standard reference work on Anabaptism and Spiritualism. Contributors include: Geoffrey Dipple, Michael Driedger, Hans-Jürgen Goertz, Brad Gregory, Sigrun Haude, Ralf Klötzer, John D. Rempel, John D. Roth, Martin Rothkegel, C. Arnold Snyder, James Stayer, Piet Visser, and R. Emmet McLaughlin. Originally published in hardcover.Trade Review"[...] this volume brings Anabaptist research a significant step forward, never failing to provide even the well-read student of Anabaptism with fresh insights, often at the most unexpected of places". - Stephen E. Buckwalter, Bucer-Forschungsstelle, Heidelberg, in: The Mennonite Quarterly Review, Vol. 83, No. 3 (July 2009). "Der Band, der sich methodisch-theoretisch im Spektrum der aktuellen Diskussionen über die Anfänge der Täufer sowie kulturwissenschaftlicher Ansätze bewegt, stellt ein willkommenes und den Stand der Täuferforschung in breiter Form zusammenfassendes Handbuch dar. [...] Karten ergänzen den Band, auch der Index, der neben Namen und Orten Sachbegriffe und Druckwerke aufgenommen hat, ist lobend hervorzuheben. Das große Verdienst des Bandes ist seine thematisch und chronologisch breite Präsentation der täuferischen Bewegungen, die auch die frühen Anfänge unter Thomas Müntzer, Andreas Karlstadt und die Bauernaufstände sowie die spiritualistischen Traditionen mit einbezieht." - Astrid von Schlachta, Universität Innsbruck, in: Innsbrucker Historische Studien, Vol. 26 (2010), pp. 245-248Table of ContentsList of Contributors Foreword, John D. Roth Introduction, James M. Stayer Chapter One. Karlstadt, Müntzer and the Reformation of the Commoners, 1521–1525, Hans-Jürgen Goertz Chapter Two. Swiss Anabaptism: The Beginnings, 1523–1525, C. Arnold Snyder Chapter Three. Swiss-South German Anabaptism, 1526–1540, James M. Stayer Chapter Four. Spiritualism: Schwenckfeld and Franck and their Early Modern Resonances, Emmet McLaughlin Chapter Five. Anabaptism in Moravia and Silesia, Martin Rothkegel Chapter Six.The Melchiorites and Münster, Ralf Klötzer Chapter Seven. The Spiritualist Anabaptists, Geoffrey Dipple Chapter Eight. Mennonites and Doopsgezinden in the Netherlands, 1535–1700, Piet Visser Chapter Nine. Marpeck and Later Swiss Brethren, 1540–1700, John D. Roth Chapter Ten. Anabaptist Religious Literature and Hymnody, John Rempel Chapter Eleven. Gender Roles and Perspectives Among Anabaptist and Spiritualist Groups, Sigrun Haude Chapter Twelve. Anabaptist Martyrdom: Imperatives, Experience, and Memorialization, Brad Gregory Chapter Thirteen. Anabaptists and the Early Modern State: A Long-Term View, Michael Driedger Index

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Book SynopsisThis exploration in the history of ideas examines the groundbreaking notion of the embodied mind in its analysis by the French philosopher and politician Maine de Biran (1766–1824) and in its afterlife: consciousness is generated through frequent interaction between the voluntary and the spiritual. The conscious, active self is constituted in its sovereign autonomy, as free and undivided, by an inner act of willful resistance, a physical effort towards its own body and the world. For the first time, a multidisciplinary group of senior and junior researchers from Japan, USA and Europe investigate origins and discursive cross-fertilization of this concept around 1800, an intermediary stage between 1870 and 1945, and its influence upon existentialism, phenomenology, and deconstructivism during the postwar-period and beyond, from 1943 to 2010.Table of Contents9789004515611 Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1 Maine De Biran in His Time (Around) 1800 1 Maine de Biran: Gender, Sensibility, and the Dynamics of Self in Post-revolutionary France  Sean Quinlan 2 Maine de Biran and Neurology  Larry McGrath 3 On Sympathy and Attention: Maine de Biran, Reader of Adam Smith and Dugald Stewart  Marco Piazza 4 Did Maine de Biran Refute David Hume?  Warren Schmaus 5 Biran and Schelling: “Contact Points” for a Radical Phenomenology  Marc Maesschalck 6 Schopenhauer and the Primal Will—A Radically Phenomenological Reading in Comparison with Maine de Biran  Rolf Kühn 7 Quel œil peut se voir soi-même?: Character and Habit in Stendhal and Maine de Biran  Alessandra Aloisi Part 2 Intermediary Biranian Posterities (1870s–1945) 8 Jules Lachelier, Reader of Maine de Biran—Contention and Legacy  Denise Vincenti 9 Maine de Biran, Alfred Fouillée, Jean-Marie Guyau, Henri Bergson: from Concentration to Expansion and Back Again  Benjamin Jacques Bâcle 10 The French Kant (or Fichte)? Brunschvicg, Biran, and the missed Synchronism  Pietro Terzi 11 Maurice Blondel’s Philosophical Debt to Maine de Biran  Michael A. Conway 12 Power(s) of I, Myself: Louis Lavelle and Maine de Biran  Anne Devarieux 13 The First Significant Season of Maine de Biran’s Reception in Italy between Neo-Kantianism and Spiritualistic Realism (1911–1939)  Marco Piazza 14 Maine de Biran in Huxley’s Brave New World: Transcending the Utilitarian through a Spiritual Self  Manfred Milz 15 Voluntary Movement as Reflection or Creation: Maine de Biran, Félix Ravaisson, and Nishida Kitarō  Mika Imono Part 3 Postwar Biran-Reception and Beyond: Existentialism; Phenomenology and Poststructuralism (1943–2010) 16 Paul Ricœur and Maurice Merleau-Ponty on the “Primitive Fact” of Subjectivity in Maine de Biran  Eftichis Epirovolakis 17 The Docile Body: Paul Ricœur’s Critique of Biran’s “Primitive Fact”  Scott Davidson 18 “L’Immanence: une vie… ” – Gilles Deleuze, Maine de Biran and the Transcendental Field  Alessandra Aloisi 19 Sensing Resistance? On Jacques Derrida’s Reading of Maine de Biran  Björn Thorsteinsson 20 (An) Unforgettable Maine de Biran? The Biranian Heresy of Michel Henry  Anne Devarieux 21 The Deep Layer of Affectivity—Maine de Biran’s Influence on Marc Richir’s Phenomenological Project  Luis Umbelino Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBetween Play and Prayer launches Spiritual Performance as a term to cover all human performance which in some way refers to creating the presence of beings or entities from a realm that transgresses the sensorial. This notion covers a great variety of performative genres, ranging from funerary services, spiritualist performances of deceased souls, to spiritual readings. This broad and deep approach to a range of performances is answering a renewed craving for spirituality in contemporary culture. By way of performance theory and aesthetic theory, concepts of faith, belief, experience, play, prayer and theatricality, are set in motion when proposing the necessity of experiencing such performances on their own terms. In depth descriptions of a variety of performances in Norwegian and New Zealand local contexts show the necessity of experiencing and understanding an existential quality in Spiritual Performance. Faith, not credo, is at the heart of spiritual practice. The book represents a new, innovative and trans-disciplinary approach to spirituality in performance. The reading of this book is a must for scholars in the field of theatre- and performance studies, ritual and festival studies, for scholars of religion, and anyone interested in the understanding of spiritual practices.Trade Review"The reader cannot fail to admire the attention to detail of Hammer’s research, as well as her honesty, frankness, and even what she calls love, here defined as ‘another form of truth… subject to the use of theatricality’." – A. Robert Lauer, University of OklahomaTable of ContentsIllustrations Preface Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Varieties of Spiritual Performance and Notions of Truth Chapter Three: Local Spiritual Performance on North Atlantic and South Pacific Shores Chapter Four: Dead Man Performing? Interactive, Transpersonal and Group Dynamics in Spiritualist Performance Chapter Five: Theatrical Reflections on Spiritual Performance Bibliography Index

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