American Spiritualities : A Reader

American Spiritualities : A Reader

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版/ページ数 530 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780253338396
  • DDC分類 200.973

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Spirituality has been called the depth dimension of life or the values at one's core centre. It has been linked to artistic creativity and to feelings of transcendence and/or connection with others. Spirituality has been associated with a quiet mind and a sense of harmony and, alternately, with high rising energy and being in the "zone." It has been called the vehicle for meeting the sacred and is recognised by some as the personal element in religion. American Spiritualities is a reader designed to explore current interest in spirituality in the United States. It aims to trace the concept and presence of spirituality in the nation's past and to explain the strong attraction to spiritual themes in the present, with attention to questions of definition, historical usage, and connection to religion. Twenty-seven selections pursue the difference and diversity among Americans in terms of their spiritual styles, here understood as modes of experiential knowledge.These styles reflect a typology gleaned from American religious history and from a modified faculty psychology; knowing through the body, or ritual-based spiritualities; knowing through the will, or prophetic and social-action spiritualities; and knowing through the mind, or metaphysically oriented spiritualities. Taken together, the reader's introductory tour adds up to an argument that the spiritual is human-made, essentially religious, and surely not the same at all American times and places.

Contents

Preliminary Table of ContentsKnowing through the Body: The Path of Ritual 1. Tamar Frankiel, "Ritual Sites in the Narrative of American Religion" 2. Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe, "The Ordinances of Public Worship" 3. Virgilio Elizondo, "Popular Religion as the Core of Cultural Identity Based on the Mexican American Experience in the United States" 4. Tamar Frankiel, "Thought, Speech, Action: Rhythms of Jewish Life" 5. Joseph Epes Brown, ed., "Wiwanyag Wachipi: The Sun Dance" 6. Starhawk, "The Coven" Part Two: Knowing through the Heart: The Path of Feeling and Emotion 7. Curtis D. Johnson, "The Second Birth" 8. Jarena Lee, "The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee" 9. Aimee Semple McPherson, "Girlhood" and "Salvation and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit" 10.. Charles W. Colson, "An Unforgettable Night" 11. Jerry Rubin, "est" 12. E. Burke Rochford, Jr., "Surrendering to Krishna: Devi's Story" Part Three: Knowing through the Will: The Path of Prophecy and Social Action 13. Joachim Wach, "The Reformer" and "The Prophet" 14. Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government" 15. Carry A. Nation, "The Divine Call" 16. Emma Goldman, (from) Living My Life 17. Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail" 18. Janet and Robert Aldridge, Molly Rush, and Daniel Berrigan, Testimonies Part Four: Knowing through the Mind: The Path of Metaphysics 19. Catherine L. Albanese, "The Subtle Energies of Spirit: Explorations in Metaphysical and New Age Spirituality" 20. Ralph Waldo Trine, "Fullness of Life--Bodily Health and Vigor" 21. Thomas Merton, "The Gift of Understanding" and "The Night of the Senses" 22. Annie Dillard, "Seeing" 23. B. Alan Wallace with Steven Wilhelm, "Four Applications of Mindfulness" 24. Dhyani Ywahoo, "Renewing the Sacred Hoop" 25. Shirley MacLaine, "The New Age and Rational Thought" and "A Rainbow of Expression" 26. B.K.S. Iyengar, "The Tree and Its Parts" 27. Chen Kung, "Discourse on Mind-Intent and Ch'i" Suggestions for Further Reading