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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Religious experience > General
In this extraordinary book, Dr. Larry Crabb introduces a
revolutionary way for Christians to experience God. "Soul talk"
happens when two Christians talk to each other in a way that
results in their passion for God being stirred, ignited, and
released.
Garrison Keillor meets Jack Kerouac meets Mahatma Gandhi in this
wry, roadwise scripture. Hobo Sapien is a series of freight train
parables born out of the author's twelve-plus years riding freight
trains, combined with lessons learned in his seven-year stint as a
Self-Realization Fellowship monk, plus the added bonus of
fascinating railroad history. Non-fiction readers buy books to
learn something, for reference, or to be entertained. Hobo Sapien
fills all three bills. Readers will get a unique immersion into the
underground world of the hobo. The spiritual takes are written with
a subtle humor that helps the medicine go down. It is not your
parent's self-help book.Armchair adventurers, rail fans, spiritual
seekers, and academia nuts will all gather intriguing information
from this missive. It is vastly different from other hobo books
because of its unparalleled combination of adventure, rail history,
humor, and spirituality. The author's background is also unique and
varied. Not many hobos have gone from Yale to rail or from hunk to
monk.
When we worship, we gather with others before God. We hear the Good
News of Jesus Christ, give thanks, confess, and offer the
brokenness of the world to God. As we break bread, our eyes are
opened to the presence of Christ. By the power of the Holy Spirit,
we are made one body, the body of Christ sent to live the Way of
Love. After Jesus' crucifixion, his friends' eyes were opened and
they recognized him as the Risen Christ when they broke bread and
blessed it together. By gathering in community weekly to thank,
praise, and dwell with God we, with God's help, "continue in the
apostles' teaching, fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in
the prayers." This series of seven Little Books of Guidance are
designed for you to discover how following certain practices can
help you follow Jesus more fully in your daily life.
A master spiritual teacher invites us on a journey - to the summit
of self-discovery. This is a book to lift the spirit of anyone
aiming to live a kinder, calmer, more meaningful life, in the midst
of all the challenges facing the world today. Fifteen warm,
engaging essays present different aspects of meditation and the
spiritual life, showing how we can rearrange our lives, little by
little, to fit a higher purpose. Featuring saints and mystics from
East and West, and a host of stories and anecdotes, this book reads
like a conversation with a wise friend, with deep spiritual
insights that you'll want to come back to again and again. Easwaran
writes, "When you travel within, every day is fresh with
discoveries and challenges, inspiration and profound peace. The
scenes I paint for you in the following pages are just a fleeting
glimpse of the continuing adventure that awaits you as you enter
this world." The final essay, "Climbing the Blue Mountain," which
gives the book its title, is a moving account of the spiritual
quest. Easwaran compares this with a long journey that he makes
from the hot, dusty plains of Central India, up through jungle and
plantations, to his home in the cool hills of the Blue Mountains,
where his mother waits for him - reminding us that on the spiritual
path, we too will one day find our true home.
Prayer is natural for human beings, a spontaneous impulse common in
all people. Yet, beyond instinct, there is a kind of prayer that's
conscious and articulate, that we have to be taught. There is an
"art of prayer," when faith and prayer become creative responses by
which creatures made in the image and likeness of the Creator
relate to him with help of the imagination. Timothy Verdon explores
these essential interactions in this magnificent book. Richly
illustrated, Monsignor Verdon explains that images work in
believers as tools that teach them how to turn to God. Art and
Prayer explores these interactions in detail, demonstrating that
prayer can become a fruit of the sanctified imagination - a way of
beauty and turning to God.
How and why have women come to play a central role in the political
project of Islamic revivalism and in the power struggles between
Islamic and secular forces in Turkey? Ayse Saktanber rejects
approaches to this issue that ask what Islam means for the position
of women or see Muslim women as the 'reverse' or the 'dark' side of
modernity. She examines the experiences of women for whom the
discourse of modernity has no relevance and looks at the ways in
which they have become crucial agents in the effort to make Islam a
living social practice in a secular order. Full of fascinating
accounts of the lives of Islamist women, this study is essential
for anyone interested in the contemporary Muslim world.
The first book to give an account of the major pilgrimage
traditions of all the great religions of the world. Pilgrimage, the
journey to a distant sacred goal, is found in all the great
religions of the world. It is a journey both outwards to hallowed
places and inwards to spiritual improvement; it can express penance
for past evils, or the search for future good; the pilgrim may
pursue spiritual ecstasy in the sacred sites of a particular faith,
or seek a miracle through the medium of god or saint. Throughout
the world, pilgrims move invisibly in huge numbers among the
tourists of today, indistinguishable from them except in purpose.
In England each year 000 pilgrims make the journey to Canterbury
cathedral and the shrine of Thomas Becket; the great festival at
Prayaga on the Ganges attracts over fifteen million men and women.
This is the first book to offer a survey of the great pilgrimage
traditions. It outlines the history of different customs and brings
together some of the common themes, revealing in the process
surprising similarities in practice among pilgrims of widely
differing beliefs and times. RICHARD BARBER's interests range
widely over the middle ages. He is the author of The Knight and
Chivalry and the Penguin Guide to Medieval Europe;he has also
written biographies of the Henry II and the Black Prince, and a
history, The Pastons: A Family in the Wars of the Roses, as well as
two classic Arthurian books, Arthurian Legends and King Arthur:
Hero and Legend.Cover illustration: The scallop shell symbol of
pilgrims to the shrine of St James at Santiago de Compostela. This
scallop shell, still showing simple colouring, was found inthe
grave of a young man buried in Keynsham Abbey in the 12th century;
the holes in the beak, for attaching the shell to the pilgrim's
scrip, are clearly visible.
* Inspiration from a respected ground-breaker * A role model tells
her story-and that of the nation and the church Hallelujah, Anyhow!
is the long-awaited memoir of the Rt. Rev. Barbara Harris, the
first woman bishop in the Anglican Communion. Edited by Kelly Brown
Douglas, Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Seminary
and an author and noted theologian in her own right, the book
offers previously untold stories and glimpses into Bishop Harris'
childhood and young adult years in her native Philadelphia, as well
as her experiences as priest and bishop, both active and
actively-retired. A participant in Dr. Martin Luther King's march
from Selma to Montgomery and crucifer at the ordination of the
"Philadelphia 11," Bishop Harris has been eyewitness to national
and church history. In the book, she reflects on her experiences
with the "racism, sexism, and other 'isms' that pervade the life of
the church," while still managing to say, "Hallelujah, Anyhow."
Photographs accompany the text and round out this portrait of a
pioneer, respected outside as well as inside the church for her
fierce, outspoken, and life-long advocacy for peace and justice.
This inspiring volume presents a unique and ethical professional
framework for engaging in spiritual discussion in the context of
family therapy. Addressing existential contradictions of life that
can disrupt family functioning as well as religious restrictions
that can create relational barriers, it models an open frame of
mind for sensitive and respectful metaphysical work with diverse
families. Chapter authors build on their own narratives of
spiritual journey as they inform conversation with clients whose
faith perspectives include Christianity, Judaism, Islam, African
and Native American spiritual practice, Taoism, and Sikhism. These
powerful dialogues illuminate the deeper tasks of therapy and offer
significant opportunities for all family members to be involved in
creating meaning and healing together. This one-of-a-kind book:
Presents the narratives of a racially, culturally, and religiously
diverse group of authors Explores the challenges of metaphysical
psychotherapeutic practice Focuses on the intersection of
therapeutic practice and spirituality in various cultural contexts
Guides therapists in looking into their own spiritual lives and
experience Models methods for therapists using spirituality in
sessions with families Challenging professionals to step beyond the
perceived boundaries of the therapist/client relationship, Engaging
with Spirituality in Family Therapy: Meeting in Sacred Space is
rich and eloquent reading for practitioners and researchers in
family therapy.
Ritual is part of what it means to be human. Like sports, music,
and drama, ritual defines and enriches culture, putting those who
practice it in touch with sources of value and meaning larger than
themselves. Ritual is unavoidable, yet it holds a place in modern
life that is decidedly ambiguous. What is ritual? What does it do?
Is it useful? What are the various kinds of ritual? Is ritual
tradition bound and conservative or innovative and
transformational?
Alongside description of a number of specific rites, this Very
Short Introduction explores ritual from both theoretical and
historical perspectives. Barry Stephenson focuses on the places
where ritual touches everyday life: in politics and power; moments
of transformation in the life cycle; as performance and embodiment.
He also discusses the boundaries of ritual, and how and why certain
behaviors have been studied as ritual while others have not.
Stephenson shows how ritual is an important vehicle for group and
identity formation; how it generates and transmits beliefs and
values; how it can be used to exploit and oppress; and how it has
served as a touchstone for thinking about cultural origins and
historical change. Encompassing the breadth and depth of modern
ritual studies, Barry Stephenson's Very Short Introduction also
develops a narrative of ritual's place in social and cultural life.
ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford
University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every
subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get
ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts,
analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make
interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
The Laws of the Sun is a book on the Truth taught by Master Ryuho
Okawa of Happy Science that is put together in the most systematic
way and is the most important of his more than 2,300 books. Ever
since he wrote it by automatic writing in 1986, the book has been
translated into 19 languages and has sold 10 million copies around
the world. Chapter One reveals many secrets--about Buddha, finite
and infinite, structure of the multidimensional universe, birth of
life, formation of the Earth's spirit group, how reincarnation
works, and the history of battle between angels and devils. Chapter
Two teaches about the nature and structure of the human soul, how
guardian and guiding spirits work, evolution of the soul,
relationship between the mind and the soul, and functions of the
mind. Chapter Three is a poetic and theoretical chapter about love.
It talks about power of love, theory of developmental stages of
love, bridge between love and enlightenment, and love of angels and
love of God. Chapter Four takes a Buddhist approach. It starts with
enlightenment and the virtue of enlightenment, and then depicts the
different levels of enlightenment up to the highest enlightenment
of humankind. It also shows how to get to each of those levels.
Chapter Five explains in clear detail how the human civilizations
changed in the last one million years, including the Mu and
Atlantis civilizations. Chapter Six talks about the wisdom and
courage to live your life every day, and reveals the true mission
of Supreme God El Cantare. Okawa writes that The Laws of the Sun is
a truly, truly mystical work, and that you should not try to use
common sense to understand it, but instead replace your common
sense with the content of this book.The Laws of the Sun has
awakened many people to the true worldview, taught them the purpose
and mission in their life, and changed their lives. And now, you're
next. You were born in this age to meet this book.
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