Sacred texts, scriptures and revered writings

Thomas Merton was recognized as one of those rare Western minds that are entirely at home with the Zen experience.

This book analyses the development of Sufism in Ottoman Egypt, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Prophezeiungen begleiten, beunruhigen und ängstigen die Menschheit schon seit mehr als tausend Jahren, und nur wenige haben Gutes für die Zukunft verkündet.

Wie schaffe ich es, jedem Moment mit offenem Herzen zu begegnen?

The Armenian-born mystic, philosopher, and spiritual teacher G.

The Oxford Handbook of Mystical Theology provides a guide to the mystical element of Christianity as a theological phenomenon.

This book offers a new, intersectional feminist approach to utilising and interpreting the visual reception of Mary Magdalene.

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Colleen Shantz addresses the role of religious experience in Paul''s life and letters, demonstrating its importance in Christian origins.

Daniel L.

This book explores Icelandic spirit work, known as andleg mal, which features trance and healing practices that span earth and spirit realms, historical eras, scientific and supernatural worldviews, and cross-Atlantic cultures.

Ahreum Kim re-examines conquering language in 1 John, arguing that when the letter is read with the context of Greco-Roman culture in mind, the conflict extends beyond in-fighting within the Johannine community.

Contributors to this volume examine the various collections of canonical sub-units in the canon, considering the state of the question regarding each particular collection.

Start each day with an inspiring message that opens your heart to new learning about loving yourself, enabling you to share your love with others.

Moral injury is a profound violation of a human being's core moral identity through experiences of violence or trauma.

The moral values and interpretive systems of religions are crucially involved in how people imagine the challenges of sustainability and how societies mobilize to enhance ecosystem resilience and human well-being.

An examination of the extraordinary texts produced by the community of St Cuthbert, showing how they were used to construct and define an identity.

Re-imagining at the Sources offers the fruits of a lifetime's reflection on the Bible and its role within the Christian faith, from a respected scholar and priest.

The book of Psalms is perhaps the most cherished book in the Old Testament.

Sufi Meditation and Contemplationoffers fresh translations of three classic Sufi texts from Mughal India: The Alms Bowl of Shaykh Kalimullah Shajehanabadi,The Compass of Truth by Dara Shikoh, and Treatise on the Human Body attributed to Mu'in al-Din Chishti.

"e;A book you will want to read and read again.

Gerhard Tersteegen (1697–1769) ist heute vor allem als evangelischer Lyriker und Liedertexter im Gedächtnis.

Simon Magus – ein Name, der in den Schriften der frühen Kirche zu einem Symbol für Häresie und dunkle Magie wurde.

The thirteenth century mystic Ibn `Arabi was the foremost Sufi theorist of the premodern era.

Fourteen centuries of Islamic thought have produced a legacy of interpretive readings of the Qu'ran written almost entirely by men.

The first examination of the formation of the New Testament as a Greco-Roman legal document known as a ''testament.

This new edition of Frithjof Schuon's classic work, Gnosis: Divine Wisdom, is a fully revised translation of the most recent French edition, and has an extensive Appendix containing previously unpublished letters and other private writings.

This volume presents key contributions to scholarship in biblical studies that engages or is influenced by cultural studies.

Prevailing stories about law and religion place great faith in the capacity of legal multiculturalism, rights-based toleration, and conceptions of the secular to manage issues raised by religious difference.

Easwarans best-selling translation of the ancient wisdom texts called the Upanishads is reliable, readable, and profound.

More than two decades have passed since Chicago published the first volume of this groundbreaking work in the Religion and Postmodernism series.

In Initiating the Millennium, Robert Collis and Natalie Bayer fill a substantial lacuna in the study of an initiatic society--known variously as the Illumins d'Avignon, the Avignon Society, the New Israel Society, and the Union--that flourished across Europe between 1779 and 1807.

Durante la década de 1907 a 1917 tuvo lugar un periodo de crisis existencial y literaria en la trayectoria de Valle-Inclán.

Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature.

What does Carmelite spirituality have to teach us about living at peace in the frenetic world of ours today?

The Art of Being and Becoming gathers Inayat Khan's teachings on what the Sufis consider the fruit of the whole creation -- the divine art of creating the human personality.

Die geheimnisvolle Welt des Golden Dawn, durchzogen von mächtigen Symbolen, rituellen Zeremonien und intensiven Initiationsverfahren, hat seit jeher die Fantasie von Suchenden, Mystikern und Historikern gleichermaßen ergriffen.

Die Kabbala ist eine Quelle unerschöpflicher Weisheit und Inspiration – und der Sohar gilt als ihr leuchtender Kern.

*; Examines how each dimension influences Earth, its levels of creative expression, and the sciences that describe each one*; Provides meditations to open you to the experience of each dimension and all nine dimensions as an integrated whole*; Includes new evidence for the nine dimensions from the supercomputer Blue Brain Project and recently discovered ancient technologyAs revealed by the Pleiadians via renowned author Barbara Hand Clow, Earth holds nine dimensions of consciousness that humans can currently access.

By integrating conversations across disciplines, especially focusing on classical studies and Jewish and Christian studies, this volume addresses several imbalances in scholarship on reading and textual activity in the ancient Mediterranean.

Originally published in 1978 Spirit Possession and Spirit Mediumship in Africa and Afro-America is an incredibly diverse and comprehensive bibliography on published works containing ethnographic data on, and analysis of, spirit possession and spirit mediumship in North and Sub-Saharan Africa and in some Afro-American communities in the Western Hemisphere.

Margaret H.

This book explores how Sufis approach their faith as Muslims, upholding an Islamic worldview, but going about making sense of their religion through the world in which they exist, often in unexpected ways.

"e;This book is a scholarly and necessary critique of why the crime of terrorism is inconsistent with the ethical outlook of the Qur'an.

How to Read the Qur'an offers a compact introduction and reader's guide for anyone, non-Muslim or Muslim, who wants to know how to approach, read, and understand the text of the Qur'an.