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Author : Howard Thurman
Publisher : Gwasg y Bwthyn
ISBN 13 : 9780953817238
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mysticism and Social Action written by Howard Thurman and published by Gwasg y Bwthyn. This book was released on 2014 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Boeke
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1783017031
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mysticism and Social Action written by Richard Boeke and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a foreword by Dr Howard Thurman's biographer Dr Luther E. Smith Jr this book contains the only surviving text of the Lawrence Lectures given by Dr Thurman at California's Berkeley Unitarian Church in 1978. As such, it is a unique record of the thinking of one of America's most celebrated African-American churchmen on the potential of religious experience and god-conscious living to transform society. Howard Thurman, as Dean of the Chapels at Howard University, and later at Boston University, was acclaimed by LIFE magasine as one of the 20th century's "e;Great Preachers"e; of America. His insights and teaching in a time of immense social upheaval influenced the lives of millions, including Martin Luther King, Jr. In the Lawrence Lecture reproduced in this book he insists that the most intense religious experience (the 'mysticism' of the title) can and should be the basis for involvement in social transformation.Also within the book is a biographical essay entitled 'The Temple above the Clouds' by the Rev Richard F Boeke, Minister of the First Unitarian Church at Berkeley 1968-1995. It was he who was instrumental in inviting Dr Thurman to deliver the Lawrence Lectures and who preserved the content of those lectures for eventual publication. His reminiscence of his ministry during those years of rapid change in social attitudes provides both a fascinating and highly personal account in itself and also an informative background to the issues addressed by Dr Thurman.
Author : Alton Brooks Pollard
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mysticism and Social Change written by Alton Brooks Pollard and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academics and activists alike have long dismissed mysticism as an «otherworldly» and escapist form of religion. Alton B. Pollard III, in a ground breaking study of the noted African-American mystic, Howard Thurman, presents an analysis of religious experience that challenges prevailing interpretations of mysticism and social change. Drawing on perspectives from sociology, phenomenology, and history, the author examines the meaning of mystical religion for the «underside» of contemporary American society. What he uncovers is significant: an activist form of mysticism, compelled by the dictates of spiritual experience, that defies social conventions and engenders social change.
Author : Janet K. Ruffing
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815628774
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mysticism and Social Transformation written by Janet K. Ruffing and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do Mysticism and and political action meet? How does faith empower its adherents to resist oppression? What are the origins of authentic contemporary mysticism? From the thirteenth-century Franciscan movement to African American mystics, this wide-ranging volume of essays considers exemplars of Christian mysticism (including Teresa of Avila, Ignatius of Loyola, the Quakers, and the Society of Friends) whose practices and influence brought about social change. Linking major conceptual issues and social theory, the essays examine the historical impact of mysticism in contemporary life and argue for a hermeneutical approach to mysticism in its historical context. The contributors look at how mystical empowerment can serve as a catalyst for expressing compassion in acts of justice and long-term social change. We learn how Sojourner Truth and Rebecca Cox Jackson, driven by mystical experiences to take up lives of preaching, faced the same misogynistic religious environments as did women mystics throughout history, which has submerged this key area of women’s experience. The final two essays describe the development of socially engaged Buddhism in Asia and America and the mystical roots of deep ecology.
Author : Susan Rakoczy, IHM
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 1587685833
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)
Download or read book Great Mystics and Social Justice written by Susan Rakoczy, IHM and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard H. Jones
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739107843
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mysticism and Morality written by Richard H. Jones and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mysticism and Morality author Richard Jones explores an often neglected question of religious ethics: Is mysticism moral? Through a discussion of several religious traditions--including Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Tantrism, Daoism, and Christianity--Jones fills a major void in the scholarly literature by considering all relevant points pertaining to mysticism. Rather than looking at mysticism abstractly, the book focuses on such topics as ritual, practice, and the processes of mystical becoming. This work provides new perspectives for those interested in ethics and will prove essential to anyone interested in comparative philosophy and cross-cultural studies of religion.
Author : Donna Schaper
Publisher : Augsburg Books
ISBN 13 : 1451407033
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)
Download or read book 40-Day Journey with Howard Thurman written by Donna Schaper and published by Augsburg Books. This book was released on 2009-09-21 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howard Thurman was an influential American author, philosopher, theologian, educator, and civil rights leader. Strongly influenced by his grandmother, a former slave, who raised him and a Quaker mystic under whom he studied, Thurman adopted a philosophy of activism rooted in faith, guided by spirit, and maintained in peace. Editor Donna Schaper selects forty inspiring passages from the works of this spiritual advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to accompany readers on their own spiritual journeys. Ideal for traveling through the seasons of Advent and Lent.
Author : Epperly, Bruce G.
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608338533
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mystics in Action written by Epperly, Bruce G. and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Portrays the lives and experiences of twelve mystical activists, exploring their worldview and spirituality and their relationship to social transformation"--
Author : Alton Brooks Pollard
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mysticism and Social Change written by Alton Brooks Pollard and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academics and activists alike have long dismissed mysticism as an «otherworldly» and escapist form of religion. Alton B. Pollard III, in a ground breaking study of the noted African-American mystic, Howard Thurman, presents an analysis of religious experience that challenges prevailing interpretations of mysticism and social change. Drawing on perspectives from sociology, phenomenology, and history, the author examines the meaning of mystical religion for the «underside» of contemporary American society. What he uncovers is significant: an activist form of mysticism, compelled by the dictates of spiritual experience, that defies social conventions and engenders social change.
Author : Matthew T. Lee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199931887
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Heart of Religion written by Matthew T. Lee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a random survey of 1,200 men and women across the United States, this book sheds new light on how Americans wake up to the reality of divine love and how that transformative experience expresses itself in concrete acts of benevolence.
