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Book SynopsisThe essays in The Philosophy of Spirituality explore a new field in philosophy. Until recently, most philosophers in the analytic and continental Western traditions treated spirituality as a religious concept. Any non-religious spirituality tended to be neglected or dismissed as irremediably vague. Here, from various philosophical and cultural perspectives, it is addressed as a subject of independent interest. This is a philosophical response to increasing numbers of spiritual but not religious people inhabiting secular societies and the heightened interaction between a multitude of spiritual traditions in a globalized age. A provocative array of approaches (African, Indigenous, Indian, Stoic, and Sufic perspectives, as well as Western analytic and continental views) offer fresh insights, many articulated by emerging voices. Contributors are Mariapaola Bergomi, Moses Biney, Christopher Braddock, Drew Chastain, Kerem Eksen, Nikolay Milkov, Roderick Nicholls, Jerry Piven, Heather Salazar, Eric Steinhart, Richard White, Mark Wynn and Eric Yang.
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction Roderick Nicholls and Heather Salazar Part 1: Understanding Spirituality: Introduction 1 Renewing the Senses: Conversion Experience and the Phenomenology of the Spiritual Life Mark Wynn 2 Spiritual Experience and Imagination Eric Yang 3 Sinister and Sublime Aspects of Spirituality Jerry Piven Part 2: Spirituality across Traditions: Introduction 4 Is Yogic Enlightenment Dependent upon God? Heather Salazar 5 Spirituality from the Margins: West African Spirituality and Aesthetics Moses Biney 6 Non-religious Spirituality in the Greek Age of Anxiety Mariapaola Bergomi 7 Becoming a Hollow Bone: Lakota Respect for the Sacred Drew Chastain 8 Silence will Change the World: Kierkegaard, Derrida and Islamic Sufism Christopher Braddock Part 3: Critical Perspectives and Re-inventions of Spirituality 9 Self-Care and Amor Fati as a Spiritual Ideal Roderick Nicholls 10 Bertrand Russell’s Religion without God Nikolay Milkov 11 Truth in Practice: Foucault’s Procedural Approach to Spirituality Kerem Eksen 12 Spirit, Soul and Self-Overcoming: A Post-Jungian View Richard White 13 Spiritual Naturalism Eric Steinhart Index
