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Book Synopsis Searching for Mom by : Sara Easterly
Download or read book Searching for Mom written by Sara Easterly and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sara Easterly spent a lifetime looking for the perfect mother. As an adoptee she had difficulties attaching to her mother and struggled with perfectionism, suicidal ideations, and fantasy mothers. When she became a mom, her search to find and become "the perfect mother" intensified ... until her mother's death launched a spiritual epiphany.
Book Synopsis Essays in Religion and Morality by : William James
Download or read book Essays in Religion and Morality written by William James and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays in Religion and Morality brings together a dozen papers of varying length to these two themes so crucial to the life and thought of William James. Reflections on the two subjects permeate, first, James's presentation of his father's Literary Remains; second, his writings on human immortality and the relation between reason and faith; third, his two memorial pieces, one on Robert Gould Shaw and the other on Emerson; fourth, his consideration of the energies and powers of human life; and last, his writings on the possibilities of peace, especially as found in his famous essay "The Moral Equivalent of War." These speeches and essays were written over a period of twenty-four years. The fact that James did not collect and publish them himself in a single volume does not reflect on their intrinsic worth or on their importance in James's philosophical work, since they include some of the best known and most influential of his writings. All the essays, throughout their varied subject matter, are consistently and characteristically Jamesian in the freshness of their attack on the problems and failings of humankind and in their steady faith in human powers.
Book Synopsis Spirituality and Moral Theology by : James Keating
Download or read book Spirituality and Moral Theology written by James Keating and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays by leading moral theologians on the topic of how being good is related to being holy in the context of pastoral life.
Book Synopsis Exploring Christian Spirituality by : Bruce H. Lescher
Download or read book Exploring Christian Spirituality written by Bruce H. Lescher and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sandra Schneiders commands respect as one of the most significant and influential figures in the emergence of the study of Christian spirituality as an academic discipline, as the focused and disciplined exploration of religious experience. This book honors her contributions to the field by addressing issues that are emerging at the creative "edges" of the discipline. In this volume, colleagues and students of Dr. Schneiders and other collaborators in the academic discipline of Christian spirituality examine crucial issues from their various disciplinary and methodological perspectives. Questions of methodology address the status of spirituality as a discipline, interdisciplinarity, and self-implication. Other essays explore the "edges" of Christian spirituality and biblical spirituality, gender studies, the natural sciences, nature writing, the social sciences, and interfaith issues. This collection of essays will provoke students and scholars of Christian spirituality, as well as practitioners, to continue critically thinking, discussing, writing, and practicing it.
Book Synopsis A Literary Education by : Joseph Epstein
Download or read book A Literary Education written by Joseph Epstein and published by Axios Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A respected essayist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Atlantic discusses the pleasure, often forgotten in the modern day, of reading something for no purpose whatsoever in his latest collection of writings.
Book Synopsis The Bible and Spirituality by : Andrew T. Lincoln
Download or read book The Bible and Spirituality written by Andrew T. Lincoln and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume aim to contribute to the newly developing academic subject of biblical spirituality. It is prompted by the belief that, although the Christian tradition has always nurtured an emphasis on spirituality rooted in the Bible and its interpretation, few biblical scholars, until recently, have pursued their work by making connections with either this religious tradition or present-day interest in the broader phenomenon of spirituality. Spiritual interpretation has overlaps with theological interpretation but is distinctive because of its focus on the wisdom of lived experience and practice. The essays therefore attempt, from within the context of the academy, responsible readings of Scripture that have as a major focus the study of how particular texts might contribute to a spirituality in which individual and communal flourishing is a major feature. The essays began as papers produced for an international symposium on the Bible and Spirituality in May 2012, hosted by the Centre for the Study of the Bible and Spirituality in the School of Humanities at the University of Gloucestershire.
Book Synopsis Modern Christian Spirituality by : Bradley Hanson
Download or read book Modern Christian Spirituality written by Bradley Hanson and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thirteen essays in this collection fall into two sections. The first section presents essays on the nature of spirituality and appropriate methods for its study, while a second section includes historical studies of particular persons and movements within Christian spirituality.Contributors include Ewert Cousins, Carlos M.N. Eire, Diogenes Allen, Eric Lund, and David Trickett.
Book Synopsis Essays on Religion, Science, and Society by : Herman Bavinck
Download or read book Essays on Religion, Science, and Society written by Herman Bavinck and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Body of Writing: An Erotics of Contemporary American Fiction examines four postmodern texts whose authors play with the material conventions of "the book": Joseph McElroy's Plus (1977), Carole Maso's AVA (1993), Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's DICTEE (1982), and Steve Tomasula's VAS (2003). By demonstrating how each of these works calls for an affirmative engagement with literature, Flore Chevaillier explores a centrally important issue in the criticism of contemporary fiction. Critics have claimed that experimental literature, in its disruption of conventional story-telling and language uses, resists literary and social customs. While this account is accurate, it stresses what experimental texts respond to more than what they offer. This book proposes a counter-view to this emphasis on the strictly privative character of innovative fictions by examining experimental works' positive ideas and affects, as well as readers' engagement in the formal pleasure of experimentations with image, print, sound, page, orthography, and syntax. Elaborating an erotics of recent innovative literature implies that we engage in the formal pleasure of its experimentations with signifying techniques and with the materiality of their medium. Such engagement provokes a fusion of the reader's senses and the textual material, which invites a redefinition of corporeality as a kind of textual practice.
Book Synopsis Teens and the New Religious Landscape by : Jacob Stratman
Download or read book Teens and the New Religious Landscape written by Jacob Stratman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are teenagers' religious experiences shown in today's young adult literature? How do authors use religious texts and beliefs to add depth to characters, settings and plots? How does YA fiction place itself in the larger conversation regarding religion? Modern YA fiction does not shy away from the dilemmas and anxieties teenagers face today. While many stories end with the protagonist in a state of flux if not despair, some authors choose redemption or reconciliation. This collection of new essays explores these issues and more, with a focus on stories in which characters respond to a new (often shifting) religious landscape, in both realistic and fantastic worlds.
Book Synopsis Essays on Spirituality by : Jan F. Brouwer
Download or read book Essays on Spirituality written by Jan F. Brouwer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The range of the essays presented in this book covers the whole field of spirituality and religion. The essays try to address such fundamental questions as: what is life? what is happiness? who am I? what do we mean when we use the word God? Both the beginning aspirant as well as the learned scholar and the accomplished meditator and mystic will find something of value here. There is something in it for everyone. Whether you are a devout Christian, a modern day Buddhist or just someone vaguely interested in the subject of spirituality, these essays, written in a modern and clear style of writing, will surely set you thinking.
Book Synopsis Religious Innovation in a Global Age by : George N. Lundskow
Download or read book Religious Innovation in a Global Age written by George N. Lundskow and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2005-01-11 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Certain timeless questions rise and fall through changing social conditions, scientific advances, and cultural variation--who am I? How should I live? What happens when I die? In modern society, traditions no longer integrate the individual into a larger spiritual community, and so movements have risen to address the crisis of meaning in a rapidly changing world. This collection of essays, while considering variables of work, class, race, and gender, theoretically and empirically examines how diverse groups are trying to restore a sense of meaning through religious innovation. The first group of essays considers new developments in theory, framing critical inquiry into recent developments in religion and the larger quest for meaning. The second section examines grass roots emancipation movements, which seek an expanded role for the individual in both belief and practice. Topics addressed include the dialectic between religious and secular values and norms, anti-Semitism, new evangelism, Neopaganism on the internet, Max Horkheimer's critical theory of religion, Christian speed/thrash metal music, Islamic fundamentalism, modernity and the role of women, French tourist destination Rocamadour's competition between the Catholic shrine and secular attractions, developments within the Polish Roman Catholic Church, the Finnish Satanism scare of 1999, and Islam and politics in Turkey. A bibliography completes each essay. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Book Synopsis Essays in the Philosophy of Religion by : Philip L. Quinn
Download or read book Essays in the Philosophy of Religion written by Philip L. Quinn and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together 14 of the papers by the late Philip Quinn, one of the world's leading philosophers of religion. It covers topics such as: religious epistemology, religious ethics, religion and tragic dilemmas, religion and political liberalism, Christian philosophy, and religious diversity.
Book Synopsis Science and the Spiritual Quest by : W. Mark Richardson
Download or read book Science and the Spiritual Quest written by W. Mark Richardson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing fundamental questions about life, this unique volume examines the way in which distinguished scientists of different faiths explore the connections between science, ethics, spirituality and the divine.
Book Synopsis The Road to Harmony with God by : Joseph A. Schrock
Download or read book The Road to Harmony with God written by Joseph A. Schrock and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the result of dedicated efforts to not only find what is most real and most vital for humans to strive toward, but to achieve an increasing harmony with a transcendent Reality that may be called God. The current book is an effort to express in understandable language the author's convictions concerning important aspects of the the road to harmony with the transcendent being we call God. There are almost innumerable religions and religious sects in our troubled world, whereby billions of human beings search for ways to find inner peace and tranquility. Very often such endeavors encounter winding roads, numerous detours in the roads, and far too often major obstacles in our paths. This book seeks to serve as a general outline of how many among us might enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of our walk on the road toward true harmony with Ultimate Reality (God). This book is emphatically not one that seeks to steer its readers toward financial wealth, or a life full of sensual and secular thrills, but it does give guidance toward an ever-growing inner peace, harmony, a sense of purpose, well-being, and joy. The book can be read with serious interest and appreciation by Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, or those oriented toward New Age ideologies. Even some strict secularists might encounter in its pages some ideas worth considering. The book is essentially nonsectarian, nondenominational, and of potential interest to any seeker of a deeper spirituality and more rewarding growth toward ultimate reality, truth, and goodness.
Download or read book This Is It written by Alan Watts and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six revolutionary essays from "the perfect guide for a course correction in life, away from materialism and its empty promise" (Deepak Chopra), exploring the relationship between spiritual experience and ordinary life—and the need for them to coexist within each of us. With essays on “cosmic consciousness” (including Alan Watts’ account of his own ventures into this inward realm); the paradoxes of self-consciousness; LSD and consciousness; and the false opposition of spirit and matter, This Is It and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience is a truly mind-opening collection.
Book Synopsis The Supremacy of the Spiritual by : Herbert Alden Youtz
Download or read book The Supremacy of the Spiritual written by Herbert Alden Youtz and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Political and Spiritual by : Roger S. Gottlieb
Download or read book Political and Spiritual written by Roger S. Gottlieb and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roger S. Gottlieb is internationally known for his groundbreaking studies of religious environmentalism, passionate account of spirituality in an age of environmental crisis, and enlightening vision of the role of religion in a democratic society. Political and Spiritual brings together for the first time his most powerful essays on these and related themes. The book’s wealth of topics includes spiritual deep ecology, ethical theory, animal rights, the Holocaust, the environmental crisis, and the experience of disability—as well as new essays on the human meaning of technology, facing death, and a fascinating intellectual autobiography. As a whole, Political and Spiritual reveals Gottlieb’s unique ability to connect our collective struggles for a just, rational, and caring society with our personal strivings for contentment, wisdom, and compassion.
