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Peeters Publishers Jacob Frank's 'Book of the Words of the Lord':
Book SynopsisThis book is concerned with the exceptional history and unprecedented thought of Jacob Frank (1726-1791), a Messianic antinomistic Jewish-Moslem-Christian leader, active in the second half of the 18th Century in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Othman empire, Moravia and Germany. Frank grew up in the Dönme circles in Salonika (Dönme was the Turkish name of the Moslem-Jews who were followers of the messianic leader Sabbatai Zevi (1626-1676), who was forced to become a Moslem. His followers decided to convert to Islam in 1683 in order to live separate Jewish messianic life). Frank defined himself in his mythical autobiography, known as The Words of the Lord as a chosen messianic Leader and as an anarchist visionary who decided to cross every border and to destroy every book, law and order. His anarchistic behavior as well as his broad social influence caused a persistent rabbinic persecution and excommunication that brought Jacob Frank and his thousands followers to undertake a mess conversion to Christianity in 1759-1760.
£44.00
Peeters Publishers From Psychology to Spirituality De la psychologie
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£66.50
Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht Glauben Sie Montags?: Ein Geistlicher
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£13.18
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Yogic Perception, Meditation and Alterd States of
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£44.65
Editorial Kairos Más Allá del Despertar: El Final de la Búsqueda
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£13.18
Gabriele-Verlag Das Wort GmbH Inner Prayer
Book SynopsisThe connection between the material and the spiritual levels of Being is established through devotion.
£7.99
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Geerdet glauben
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£22.50
El Grano de Mostaza Soy Expresión
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£25.47
Fragmenta Editorial, SL Sin Buda no podría ser cristiano
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£33.56
Obelisco Ilumina Tu Vida
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£15.08
Editorial Sirio Senda del Reposo, La
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£16.02
Editorial Sirio La Verdad Profunda
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£17.47
Obelisco Zohar, El XXIV
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£20.03
Obelisco Zohar, El XXV
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£19.17
Obelisco Zohar Sobre El Cantar de Los Cantares
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£19.06
Books on Demand Wie funktioniert ein Leben mit Gott?: Der Sinn
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£20.80
Texnai Inc. A Spiritual Blueprint for Humanity
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£14.25
Peter Lang AG Rituals in an Unstable World: Contingency –
Book SynopsisRefuting prophecies of an unstoppable increase in secularization, the fascination of religious rituals proofs to be unbroken in the late modern world. This book contests classical paradigms that reduce the rationale of rituals to normativity (Durkheim), intelligibility (Geertz) and dialectics (Turner). Instead, it shows that rituals assert their significance in the post-colonial and globalizing world by successfully negotiating structure and contingency, identity and hybridity, script and embodiment. Its case studies are dealing with a broad variety of ritual genres and expressions, including initiation ceremonies and spirit possession, new harvest ceremonies, cults of ancestors, deities and saints, ceremonial receptions, inaugurations and memorials, ritual theatre, carnival and ritual painting in contemporary Brazil, Germany, France, India, Japan, Taiwan, USA, Vietnam, and Yemen.Table of ContentsContents: Alexander Henn: Introduction. Beyond Norm, Text and Dialectics - Ritual as Social Praxis – Ulricke Stohrer: Keeping Stability in an Unstable World: Ritual, Performance and Identity in Yemen – Alito Siqueira: Performing Myths of Location: The Return of the Goddess of Saltura (India) – Mani Shekhar Singh: Tradition, Pictorial Convention, Personal Trait: Poetics of Composition in Maithil Painting (India) – Michael Rudolph: Improvisation, Contingency, and Ambiguity: The Efficacy of Contemporary Ritual Performances of Taiwan’s Aborigines – Terence Turner: Ritualized Politics and Politicized Ritual Among Ourselves and the Kayapo of Brazil – Monika Salzbrunn: Marginal Politics: Carnivals as a Mode of Expression in Migration (France/Germany) – Akira Nishimura: Symbiosis or Segregation? Dealing With the «Foreign» in Nagasaki – Betina Schmidt: Polyphonic Bricolage: Caribbean Religious Cultures in New York City – Alexander Henn: Ritual, History and Identity in Goa (India) – Beatrix Hauser: How to Fast for a Good Husband? Reflections on Ritual Imitation and Embodiment in Orissa (India) – Kirsten Endres: Serving the Shadows: Performative Aspects of Vietnamese Mediumship – Irit Averbuch: Embodying the Sacred in Kagura Performances: On the Non-Verbal Language of Divine Presence in Japanese Ritual Dance-Dramas – Klaus-Peter Koepping: Body - Text - Mask: Competing Ritual Strategies and the Fracturing of Collective Identity in Modern Japan – Vincent Crapanzano: On the Preclusive Dimension of Ritual Representation.
£56.79
Peter Lang AG Astrologie in der Europaeischen
Book SynopsisDiese religionswissenschaftliche Untersuchung verfolgt die europäische Tradition der Astrologie von ihren orientalischen Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart. Als ein Sammelbegriff unterschiedlicher auf den Kosmos bezogener Lehren und Praktiken ist die Astrologie einerseits ein in sich konsistentes kulturelles Phänomen. Andererseits scheint es, dass sie mit der Überwindung des geozentrischen Weltbildes durch Kopernikus und Kepler ihre Begründung verloren hat und nur als intellektuelle Regression (Theodor W. Adorno) weiterhin bestehen kann. Dieser Auffassung steht die hier begründete These entgegen, dass die Astrologie den Wechsel der Weltbilder unbeschadet überleben konnte, weil die Begründungsmuster jenseits der rein naturwissenschaftlichen Perspektiven liegen. So hat sich die Astrologie als moderne individualisierte Religiosität auch in westlichen Gesellschaften etabliert.
£45.36
Peter Lang AG Understanding the Person: Essays on the
Book SynopsisThe book deals with the philosophy of the human person as worked out by Karol Wojtyła. It presents a number of fundamental issues necessary to understand Karol Wojtyła’s personalism. Thus, first it undertakes Wojtyła’s move from the philosophy of the human being to the philosophy of the human person; second, it presents Wojtyła’s epistemological approach to the person against the background of other philosophies concerned with the human person; third, it describes the metaphysical structure of the person; four, it analyses the person’s selected faculties (consciousness, emotions); five, it presents some aspects of the action of the person (a person’s causation, or their role in dialogue); and finally, it tries to sketch the problem of personal dignity.Table of Contents Introduction Towards the Philosophy of the Human Person How to Know the Person? The Structure of the Person The Person and His Faculties The Person in Action The Dignity of the Person
£38.07
Verlag Peter Lang The Voices of Mechthild of Magdeburg
Book SynopsisMechthild of Magdeburg's singular book Das Fließende Licht der Gottheit (The Flowing Light of the Godhead') must be accounted one of the most significant texts in German that we have from the thirteenth century. As a piece of first-rate imaginative writing in the vernacular it is a highly rewarding text for those interested in medieval literature and women's writing. It is also of considerable interest to historians and theologians as a document of female spirituality. This introduction to Mechthild's extraordinary account of her revelations and of her relationship with God and with her contemporaries makes Mechthild's book more accessible to the English speaker. It takes as its central focus the multi-voiced nature of Mechthild's writings, suggesting ways of reading her work through an analysis of key voices in the text: (i) the social-historical voice of Mechthild as beguine and nun (ii) the authorial voice (iii) the voice of the mystic and prophet with particular reference to the influence of the Psalter and the Song of Songs (iv) the temporal voice of the visionary at the intersection of Mechthild's personal story with the master story of Christian salvation.
£53.28
Thomas Mayer Covid Vaccines from a Spiritual Perspective
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£15.29
Rupa & Co Yajnaseni,the Story of Draupadi
Book SynopsisThe undoubted heroine of the Mahabharata, one of the honoured ''pancha sati'', one of the five most virtuous women in Hindu mythology, Draupadi is still seen by many as the woman responsible for the greatest war of all time. In this historical novel, Pratibha Ray makes an admirable attempt to present a balanced portrait of Draupadi and in doing so, skilfully brings to the forefront the deeper aspects of the character and mind of the remarkable Pandava Queen.
£23.76
Diamond Books I am the Gate
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£11.91
Editorial Sirio La Ciencia de la Iluminacion
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£16.38
Urano Camino de la Sabiduria: Nueve Practicas
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£15.82
Editorial Kairos Dios
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£15.84
El Grano de Mostaza Ediciones Sabiduría del Doctor David R. Hawkins, La
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£18.89
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Conversaciones con Dios: El diálogo continúa /
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£12.40
BoD - Books on Demand Das Büchlein der Wahrheit
£10.99
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Conversaciones con Dios: Un diálogo excepcional / Conversations with God. An Unc ommon Dialogue
£14.75
Jaico Publishing House Shiva Sutras
Book SynopsisThe profound teaching of Lord Shiva introduces us to A Bigger Container where one learns to be charitable to oneÃââs own self. This practice of making A Bigger Container is essentially spiritual.
£999.99
Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht Seelsorge Fur Angehorige Von Menschen Mit Demenz
£16.82
V&R unipress GmbH Gottinnen
Book SynopsisWhen God created man, she was practicing this famous saying succinctly sums up the criticism of early feminist Christian theology. In addition, the Cultural Turn challenged the concept of religion that had been developed on the basis of Christianity assuming a sharp contrast between monotheism and polytheism. Starting from these criticisms and in the framework of a transcendental gender history from (late) antiquity to the present, this issue investigates the variety of discourses and actions opened up by notions of goddesses. In so doing, it explores the relationship between gender and transcendental concepts.
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Frick Verlag Gmbh Glaube wirkt durch Liebe
£15.72
Peeters Publishers Homo Theomorphicus et Theophoricus: A
Book SynopsisThis book explores the broad anthropological foundations of spirituality including science, psychology, philosophy, and theology. Human spirituality is an essential topic in both present-day humanistic and scientific debates. Reflection on spirituality leads us to the conclusion that we are formed both as a vessel to receive the grace and presence of God, as well as to be the bearers of God’s image, which is expressed most fully in acts of self-transcendence. In such an approach, the human being emerges as homo theomorphicus et theophoricus. This approach to our nature, finds an equivalent perspective in our spirituality, resulting in a discovery of its receptive-responsive nature. We associate spiritual receptivity with “God-shape-ness”, our state of being formed in the image or likeness of God, that is, theomorphism; our responsiveness engenders “God-bearing-ness”, that is, theophorism. This book is the fruit of extended and intensive research by the author who happens to be a believer. Hence, the last part of it is theological but in its earlier parts it remains faithful to scientific methodology, venturing through neuroscience, psychology and philosophy.
£67.21
Peeters Publishers The Transforming Presence of Mystery: A
Book SynopsisSpiritual Theology’s journey through these last decades shows an itinerary of development, the fruit of which is an ever more solid identity. This book seeks to present a perspective in that itinerary and in tune with the signs of our times: on one hand, militant secularism and, on the other, a widespread, concrete resurgence of experiences of transcendence. In this sense, I am presenting a path of study organized around five concepts: presence, mystery, transcendence, lived experience, and transformation. In effect, the inner transformation worked by the Presence of Mystery leaves a new knowing, in which the relationship with reality is renewed, since it has expanded and dilated beyond sensible perception, opening the subject up to an unlimited and real horizon of transcendence. The awareness of perceiving a `greater reality’ within reality leaves an emotional resonance that teaches a new way of feeling and reacting in the face of sensibly perceived reality.
£64.93
Peeters Publishers Modernity, Melancholy and Predestination:
Book SynopsisEarly modernity is characterized by intensified and in-depth Christianization processes and the development of various models for religious subjectivity. Experiences of anxiety, despair and abandonment often play a central role in the religious literature and practices, notably in a protestant context in which there are intense debates on the place and value of such experiences in religious life. What is the relation between faith and despair? Can one distinguish spiritual despair from melancholia? What is the role played by the doctrine of predestination in faith practices that include despair and desire? This book explores such questions through a reading of a variety of sources with the use of philosophical and psychoanalytical theories and perspectives: the life of Francis Spira, Luther, Calvin, Willem Teellinck, Gisbertus Voetius and Jean de Labadie.
£78.85
Peeters Publishers Down Town / Down Soul: Early Modern Mysticism,
Book SynopsisIt is just as possible to live deep down in the innermost of the soul in the heart of ‘down town’ as it is in the quiet of a monastery cell. ‘Town’ and ‘soul’ are not in contradiction to each other. The mystics who agree on this are not the minor ones. And yet, as we read in the works of the same mystics, ‘town’ and ‘soul’ – the inner path and social engagement – do not go together easily. Of course, the mystic embraces the commandment of neighbourly love, but is his charity not merely an ‘instrument’ helping him – and only him – to come in closer contact with God? This and similar questions are central to Down Town / Down Soul. Part One (‘Mysticism’) presents studies on the typically ‘mystical’ character of the inner life. Part Two (‘Down Town’) reflects upon the relationship between the mystical and the political, while Part Three (‘Down Soul’) returns to the soul and its abysmal – ‘mystical’ – condition.
£65.00
Peeters Publishers Virtual Pilgrimage: A Pathway to Spiritual
Book SynopsisWalking practices are experiencing a revival in the post-millennial world. Chief among these is the discipline of pilgrimage. The purpose of this research was to explore the pilgrimage trope as a pathway to spiritual renewal for Ottawa’s Shepherds of Good Hope (SGH) volunteers. A form of substitute pilgrimage identified as ‘virtual pilgrimage’ was adapted to simulate the last 100 km of the Camino de Santiago trail. A purposive random sample of twelve SGH volunteers (six men and six women) walked the distance virtually, over a period of six weeks. Each week, the participants were given a reflection question to focus their walks and their journal accounts. The research methodology was configured around Richard Osmer’s four-task cycle for practical theological research. The data was collected by way of a questionnaire, a focus group, and the participants’ journal accounts. NVIVO software was used to analyze the data, and Stephen Bevans’ “Praxis Model” was used to interpret the results. Virtual pilgrimage encompasses many of the themes associated with the traditional distance pilgrimage, including suspension of regular routines, intentionality, experiences of blessedness and beauty, and encounters with sacred mystery that inspired social action. The results showed that virtual pilgrimage contains the same facility for spiritual renewal as the traditional, distance pilgrimage, with potential wide-ranging applications in the health, human, and social services fields.
£55.00
Peeters Publishers From Wisdom to Mystery through Love: Philosophy
Book SynopsisThe diverse chapters of this programmatic book, originally penned as essays, are pathways within the same itinerary of presenting a fundamental model of understanding Philosophy: Philosophy is Spirituality. This itinerary is not only defined by its goal, which is the Absolute (the all-encompassing term to designate the Supreme Being or what confessionally is designated as God or Lord), but by the path of mediation or experience. Parting from the Basic Coordinates of the Question or the Status Quaestionis, Philosophy is redefined in view of its Metaphysical Vocation which aims for man to have communion with the Transcendental Reality, in its Supreme Instance (the Absolute), which has its roots in contemplation, which is the true metaphysical attitude in face of the ontological reduction of all reality to thought which is being in the human knowing faculty. From Metaphysics to path opens us up as Mystagogy or initiation, accompaniment into the Mystery which is the Presence of the Transcendent in the Immanence of Human History. The effectivity of this Presence is what is understood to be the Mystical, which is not to be reduced to its external phenomena. Only in Mystagogy can the Metaphysical Project of Communion of Philosophy be realized as a Spirituality, as a historical itinerary within human immanence, toward the Transcendental Reality of the Absolute. Given the programmatic nature of this work, the chapters are only introductions to the dynamics of discovering Philosophy as Spirituality and thus are bereft of the aim of presenting an exhaustive treatise. Written within a primarily Christian tradition, this opus is a dialogue and seeks to further widen the horizons of dialogue with its succinct and yet profoundly reflective exposition and presentation of viewpoints.
£77.90
Peeters Publishers Mysticism and/as Love Theory
Book SynopsisMysticism is all about love. Mystics love God and want to get in touch with Him. To this end, they follow a tortuous path through the intimacy of their own souls, driven by desire. The Lord may not be the easiest of lovers, but this does not prevent them from longing for Him. In fact, his perceived absence, physical and even mental, makes their love burn all the fiercer. And this burning love is far from thoughtless. The difficulty of loving God is precisely one of the main reasons why mystics have always felt the need to reflect profoundly upon their relationship with Him. The mystical canon testifies in various ways to its authors’ extensive and diversified thinking on their intense spiritual love lives. And these reflections all have their elaborate, subtle theories of love. It is from this perspective that the contributions to this volume approach several important works in the Christian mystical tradition, from the Seven Ways of Minne by Beatrice of Nazareth, via Novalis’s Hymns to the Night, to the Prologue by Simone Weil. These writings are examined for their specific theoretical schemes and backgrounds. At the same time, the question is also dealt with how the theory and the experience of love relate to one another in these texts. Investigations of the reflections on this topic by modern thinkers like Jean-Paul Sartre and Michel Foucault round off this exploration of mysticism and its love theories.
£75.69
Peeters Publishers Spirituality: Forms, Foundations, Methods
Book SynopsisThis textbook is a systematic guide to the extensive field of spirituality. Kees Waaijman charts the multiform phenomenon of spirituality: the spirituality of ordinary people, the great spiritual traditions and the force of counter-movements. From the foundation of this survey he answers questions like: What exactly is spirituality? What forms can a scholarly approach take? Finally, the book provides methodic access to the study of spirituality, focusing on the following questions: Which are the different forms of spirituality and how can we describe them? How can spiritual texts be given a reliable reading? Which themes can be distinguished in the field of spirituality and what would be a meaningful way to address them? What do we mean by spiritual guidance and what can we learn from it? This textbook has no equal. It is indispensable to scholars wishing to study the subject, but also to others who want to learn about spirituality.
£56.58
Yunus Publishing Etty Hillesum: Volledig Leven
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£13.00
HarperCollins India Rishabhayan: The Story of the First King
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. SAPTARSHIS
Book SynopsisHow could Sage Vasishtha attribute such an action to him? Heost control of his senses and, in turn, took water in his palm. Madayanti, who was watching in horror, approached him in one swift movement and held his hand. When Mitrasaha turned his face towards her, she shook her head. No, myord! What is it you are doing? Sage Vasishtha is our kulaguru.'' Mitrasaha felt ashamed and sprinkled the water on his own feet. At once, his feet became spotted with black marks, and having changed into a demon, heeft the palace.'' How did Gotama win the hand of Ahalya? What is the relation of Kasyapa and Kashmir? How did Vitahavya, born a kshatriya, become a brahmin? Why did Parashurama become a warrior and Visvamitra a sage? How were the two related? Saptarshis answers all these questions. This racy narrative recounts the extraordinaryives of the seven sagesVasishtha, Kasyapa, Atri, Visvamitra, Gotama, Jamadagni and Bharadvajaknown as Saptarshis. These sages may haveived eons ago but theirives were no different from ours.
£8.49
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. NAVARATRI: WHEN DEVI COMES HOME
Book SynopsisLike most festivals, Navaratri is also an institutionalized way of nurturing your inner creativity. Devi is always with us. Devi is always inside us. Every year, there are occasions when we celebrate her presence aittle more, specially worship her and become a bit more conscious of her presence inside us, and everywhere around us. Navaratri, the nine nights with Devi, is an example. Chaitra and Sharada Navaratris are special occasions when Bharata, with all its diversity, celebrates Devi''s manifestations. Rituals and rites areocalized, customs are based on historicalegacies and culture, but the template of worship is universal throughout India, and even outside it. Navaratri: When Devi Comes Home documents this diversity in tradition, each specific to one particular part of the country. But, taken together, they resonate with the themeya devi sarva-pradesheshu puja-rupena samsthita. Justike diverse manifestations of the Adi Shaktithe eternal Goddesswhich Devi is worshipped as, the expression of the celebration changes as you move around the country.
£9.74
