The meditative prayer practices known as Hesychasm and the Jesus
Prayer have played an important role in the history of Eastern
Orthodox Christianity. This book explores how these prayer
practices have spread from a primarily monastic setting within
Orthodox Christianity, into general Orthodox Christian usage, and
finally into wider contemporary Western culture. As a result of
this gradual geographic shift from a local to a global setting,
caused mainly by immigration and dissemination of related texts,
there has been a parallel shift of interpretation causing
disagreement. By analyzing ongoing conversations on the practices,
this book shows how such disagreements are due to differences in
the way groups understand the ideas of authority and tradition.
These fundamental ideas lie beneath much of the current discussion
on particular aspects of the practices and also contribute to the
wider academic debate over the globalization and appropriation of
religious traditions.
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