Critical Spirituality

Author : Ms Fiona Gardner
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409494454
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Spirituality written by Ms Fiona Gardner and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical spirituality is a way of naming a desire to work with what is meaningful in the context of enabling a socially just, diverse and inclusive society. Critical spirituality means seeing people holistically, seeking to understand where they are coming from and what matters to them at a fundamental level; the level that is part of the everyday but also transcends it. What is important in critical spirituality is to combine a postmodern valuing of individual experience of spirituality with all its diversity with a critical perspective that asserts the importance of living harmoniously and respectfully at an individual, family and community level. Human service professionals currently wrestle with the gradually increasing expectation to work with spirituality often without feeling capable of undertaking such practice. Some work with people experiencing major trauma or change such as palliative care or rehabilitation where people ask meaning of life questions to which they feel ill equipped to respond. Others work with individuals, families and communities experiencing conflict about spiritual issues. Increased migration and movement of refugees increases contact with people for whom spirituality is central. Such experiences raise a number of issues for existing professionals as well as students: what do we mean by spiritual? How does this relate to religion? How do we work with the spiritual in ways that recognise and value difference, without accepting abusive relationships? What are the limits to spiritual tolerance, if any? This book explores these issues and addresses the dilemmas and challenges experienced by professionals. It also provides a number of practical tools such as possible questions to ask to assess for spiritual issues; to see spirituality as part of a web of relationships.

Author : Fiona Gardner
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409427951
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Spirituality written by Fiona Gardner and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a guide to finding meaning and a purpose in life, providing advice about relationships, commitment, personal responsibility, and spiritual connections.

Author : Shōhei Ichimura
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN 13 : 9788120817982
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buddhist Critical Spirituality written by Shōhei Ichimura and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 2001 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprises fifteen research articles primarily based on the discipline of Indian and Buddhist Studies. The collection is designed to propose a Buddhist philosophy of religion--that the insight of Prajna and Sunyata initiates a future religion which is freed both from conflict between reasoning and believing, and from goal-oriented cycles of life. It addresses transformation from the conflict-ridden quest for a supreme being, to the search for a non-theistic nature of spirituality that provides a foundation for universal human happiness and salvation. For the discipline of Buddhist Studies, this collection also demonstrates the productive value of drawing upon cross-cultural and cross-racial literary sources and traditions.

Author : Fiona Gardner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135194729X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Spirituality written by Fiona Gardner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical spirituality is a way of naming a desire to work with what is meaningful in the context of enabling a socially just, diverse and inclusive society. Critical spirituality means seeing people holistically, seeking to understand where they are coming from and what matters to them at a fundamental level; the level that is part of the everyday but also transcends it. What is important in critical spirituality is to combine a postmodern valuing of individual experience of spirituality with all its diversity with a critical perspective that asserts the importance of living harmoniously and respectfully at an individual, family and community level. Human service professionals currently wrestle with the gradually increasing expectation to work with spirituality often without feeling capable of undertaking such practice. Some work with people experiencing major trauma or change such as palliative care or rehabilitation where people ask meaning of life questions to which they feel ill equipped to respond. Others work with individuals, families and communities experiencing conflict about spiritual issues. Increased migration and movement of refugees increases contact with people for whom spirituality is central. Such experiences raise a number of issues for existing professionals as well as students: what do we mean by spiritual? How does this relate to religion? How do we work with the spiritual in ways that recognise and value difference, without accepting abusive relationships? What are the limits to spiritual tolerance, if any? This book explores these issues and addresses the dilemmas and challenges experienced by professionals. It also provides a number of practical tools such as possible questions to ask to assess for spiritual issues; to see spirituality as part of a web of relationships.

Author : Mervyn Hartwig
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134005296
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Realism and Spirituality written by Mervyn Hartwig and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Realism and Spirituality contextualizes, delineates, explores and critiques the turn to spirituality and religion in critical realism, which has been under way since the mid-1990s, as well as telling its story. It provides incisive discussion and anaysis of the following broad questions: How does critical realism allow and facilitate the resolution of problems in the area of comparative religion? Can it help you to justify your own faith or belief? What are the implications of the new philosophy of meta-Reality for traditional religious studies and how we organize and conduct our lives? A range of distinguished critical realists, theological critical realists and scholars working with related approaches (Roland Benedikter, Roy Bhaskar, Terry Eagleton, Mervyn Hartwig, Alister McGrath, Markus Molz, Jamie Morgan, Andrew Wright and others) bring their talents to bear on this task. While their personal beliefs span the whole spectrum from theism to atheism, they are united by the desire to open up a space for dialogue of one kind or another (intra-faith, inter-faith and/or extra-faith), promoting mutual understanding, respect and the unity and capability for collective emancipatory action on a global scale that humanity is so sorely in need of. This book is therefore, essential reading for students and academics alike in Religous Studies, Theology and Philosophy.

Author : Janet O. Hagberg
Publisher : Sheffield Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1879215667
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Critical Journey written by Janet O. Hagberg and published by Sheffield Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Critical Journey, at its core, is a description of the spiritual journey: our response to our faith in God with the resulting changes that follow. In this book, authors Janet O. Hagberg and Robert A. Guelich address the following issues: the struggle to find meaning and wholeness the crisis of values and identity at mid-life the quest for self-actualization the healing of early religious experiences questions about the spiritual journey Their goal is to help us understand where we are on our individual faith journeys and also appreciate where others are in theirs. The Critical Journey does not reveal exactly how or when we need to move along in our personal pilgrimages, nor does it offer formulas for spiritual growth. Rather, it describes six phases of the spiritual journey and illustrates how people act and think while in these stages. This is an excellent guide for those who are wrestling with their faith and wondering how others have resolved their "dark nights of the soul." Here is an answer for those who have wondered why everyone doesn't respond in the same manner to the message of the Gospel.

Author : Elisa Facio
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816530971
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fleshing the Spirit written by Elisa Facio and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fleshing the Spirit brings together established and new writers to explore the relationships between the physical body, the spirit and spirituality, and social justice activism. The anthology incorporates different genres of writing—such as poetry, testimonials, critical essays, and historical analysis—and stimulates the reader to engage spirituality in a critical, personal, and creative way.

Author : Mark C. Taylor
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226791734
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Terms for Religious Studies written by Mark C. Taylor and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century that began with modernism sweeping across Europe is ending with a remarkable resurgence of religious beliefs and practices throughout the world. Wherever one looks today, from headlines about political turmoil in the Middle East to pop music and videos, one cannot escape the pivotal role of religious beliefs and practices in shaping selves, societies, and cultures. Following in the very successful tradition of Critical Terms for Literary Studies and Critical Terms for Art History, this book attempts to provide a revitalized, self-aware vocabulary with which this bewildering religious diversity can be accurately described and responsibly discussed. Leading scholars working in a variety of traditions demonstrate through their incisive discussions that even our most basic terms for understanding religion are not neutral but carry specific historical and conceptual freight. These essays adopt the approach that has won this book's predecessors such widespread acclaim: each provides a concise history of a critical term, explores the issues raised by the term, and puts the term to use in an analysis of a religious work, practice, or event. Moving across Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Native American and Mayan religions, contributors explore terms ranging from experience, territory, and image, to God, sacrifice, and transgression. The result is an essential reference that will reshape the field of religious studies and transform the way in which religion is understood by scholars from all disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, psychology, cultural studies, gender studies, and literary studies.

Author : Margaret R. Miles
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597527505
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practicing Christianity written by Margaret R. Miles and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-06-07 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men and women throughout history have learned to shape their lives around Christian ideas, attitudes, and values in many different ways. They have been helped by liturgies, sermons, visual imagery, religious drama, and hymns. But perhaps the most important sources were the classic devotional manuals, like The Imitation of Christ and The Pilgrim's Progress, many of which are still in use today. In this book, Margaret Miles subjects these devotional manuals to a detailed critique. Miles speaks as a scholar, as a Christian living in the modern world, and as a woman, and she ends by discussing the relevance of her findings to Christian life today.

Author : Ananta Kumar Giri
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811308039
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practical Spirituality and Human Development written by Ananta Kumar Giri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores varieties of spiritual movements and alternative experiments for generation of beauty, dignity and dialogues, in a world where the rise of the religious in politics and the public sphere is often accompanied by violence. It examines how spirituality can contribute to human development, social transformations and planetary realizations, urging us to treat each other, and our planet, with evolutionary care and respect. Trans-disciplinary and trans-paradigmatic to its very core, this text opens new pathways of practical spirituality and humanistic action for both scholarship and discourse and offers an invaluable companion for scholars across religious studies, cultural studies and development studies.