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Author : Ariel Glucklich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 31,95 MB
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1108486428
Using a psychological and historical approach, the book describes the ways that religions deepen and prolong feelings of wellbeing.
Author : Ariel Glucklich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 29,21 MB
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108460163
All religions describe spiritual experience as pleasant, and the goal of the religious pursuit as profoundly joyful. But many religions also condemn sensory pleasures and the desire for objects of pleasure. In this book, Ariel Glucklich resolves this apparent contradiction by showing how religious practices that instill self-control and discipline transform one type of pleasure into the pleasures of mastery and play. Using historical data and psychological analysis, he details how the rituals, mystical practices, moral teachings, and sacred texts of the world's religions act as psychological instruments that induce well-being. Glucklich also shows that in promoting joy and pleasure, religion also strengthens social bonds and enhances an individual's pursuit of meaning.
Author : Peter Occhiogrosso
Publisher : Backinprint.com
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,26 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Religions
ISBN : 9780595373925
Narrative histories of the six great religious traditions of East and West, along with brief sections on the scriptures, places of worship, and terminologies, as well as the numerous denominations, orders, and schools that make up world religion.
Author : Phan, Peter C.
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 24,35 MB
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1608336905
Author : Lucinda J. Peach
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 22,96 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN :
This book features a number of different articles and essays that focus on women as active agents of their spiritual lives--a topic that is often overlooked in most other world religion books. It explores how women from many parts of the world have thought about, acted, and have been treated as members of a religious tradition. Investigates how women of a variety of religious traditions (e.g., Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, etc.) practice their religion, how their beliefs differ from men, and how they have carved out their own place within their religious tradition. For anyone interested in how women are shaped by and how they shape the various world religions.
Author : Ariel Glucklich
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 35,3 MB
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199839492
Why would anyone seek out the very experience the rest of us most wish to avoid? Why would religious worshipers flog or crucify themselves, sleep on spikes, hang suspended by their flesh, or walk for miles through scorching deserts with bare and bloodied feet? In this insightful new book, Ariel Glucklich argues that the experience of ritual pain, far from being a form of a madness or superstition, contains a hidden rationality and can bring about a profound transformation of the consciousness and identity of the spiritual seeker. Steering a course between purely cultural and purely biological explanations, Glucklich approaches sacred pain from the perspective of the practitioner to fully examine the psychological and spiritual effects of self-hurting. He discusses the scientific understanding of pain, drawing on research in fields such as neuropsychology and neurology. He also ranges over a broad spectrum of historical and cultural contexts, showing the many ways mystics, saints, pilgrims, mourners, shamans, Taoists, Muslims, Hindus, Native Americans, and indeed members of virtually every religion have used pain to achieve a greater identification with God. He examines how pain has served as a punishment for sin, a cure for disease, a weapon against the body and its desires, or a means by which the ego may be transcended and spiritual sickness healed. "When pain transgresses the limits," the Muslim mystic Mizra Asadullah Ghalib is quoted as saying, "it becomes medicine." Based on extensive research and written with both empathy and critical insight, Sacred Pain explores the uncharted inner terrain of self-hurting and reveals how meaningful suffering has been used to heal the human spirit.
Author : Fritz Ridenour
Publisher : Gospel Light Publications
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,61 MB
Release : 2002-06-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830727896
Since the days of the Early Church, Christians have struggled to find a way to be 'good'-to please God by their own efforts. They end up carrying a burden God never intended them to bear. And what's more, their brand of Christianity ends up looking like any other religion of the world-bound by joyless rules and rituals. Fritz Ridenour's study of the book of Romans provides an antidote to the pharisaical spirit and shows that Christianity is not a religion but a relationship. It is not man reaching up, but God reaching down. Every Christian can enjoy his or her birthright when they realize who they are in Christ. The result is a life full of hope, joy, power and potential.
Author : Mary David
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,61 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1472971337
Sister Mary David Totah was a nun of the Benedictine contemplative community of St Cecilia's Abbey on the Isle of Wight. American by birth, she was educated at Loyola University, the University of Virginia and Christ Church, Oxford. After a distinguished teaching career, she entered religious life in 1985. For 22 years until her early death from cancer she guided the young nuns of her abbey with enthusiasm, wisdom and wit. The spirituality to be found in the pages of this book demonstrates to the reader why her influence should have been so great and so deep. Her notes to the novices deal with issues of relevance to a world beyond the cloister: What is the meaning of suffering? How do we cope with living with people who annoy us? How do we relate to a God we cannot see? How do we make the big decisions of life? Sister Mary David's teaching was both profound and intensely practical, suffused with faith in God's joy in our work, leisure, community and family life but above all in our view and understanding of ourselves. This book, with an introduction by Abbot Erik Varden OCSO (author of The Shattering of Loneliness) shows us how to realize the Joy that is God.
Author : Ethel Blackwell Robinson
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 19,85 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Devotional literature
ISBN :
Author : Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,47 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0547636350
"Beyond Religion" is a stirring call to move beyond religion for the guidance to improve human life on individual, community, and global levels--including a guided meditation practice for cultivating key human values.