Sacred texts, scriptures and revered writings

This study examines the history of the psychoanalytic theory of mysticism, starting with the seminal correspondence between Freud and Romain Rolland concerning the concept of "e;oceanic feeling.

Comprising well over a thousand pages of densely written Aramaic, the compilation of texts known as the Zohar represents the collective wisdom of various strands of Jewish mysticism, or kabbalah, up to the thirteenth century.

This is the full edition of the early Upanisads, the central scriptures of Hinduism.

This volume is the first trilateral exploration of medieval scriptural interpretation.

The essays in this collection address the problem of Hindu women's relationship to authority, both within and without the textual traditions of Sanskrit, Tamil, Hindi, and English.

This book is an interdisciplinary and multicultural study of ancient and contemporary texts that encode women's spirituality.

'You don't seek guidance from those drunken men, So why insist they mend their rags again?

In the decades leading up to the Second Vatican Council, the movement of nouvelle theologie caused great controversy in the Catholic Church and remains a subject of vigorous scholarly debate today.

Scriptural Exegesis gathers voices from an international community of scholars to consider the many facets of the history of biblical interpretation and to question how exegesis shapes spiritual and cultural creativity.

Some experiences of the natural world bring a sense of unity, knowledge, self-transcendence, eternity, light, and love.

David Brown argues for the importance of experience of God as mediated through place in all its variety.

Scholars of Gregory of Nyssa have long acknowledged the centrality of faith in his theory of divine union.

'You don't seek guidance from those drunken men, So why insist they mend their rags again?

The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies innovatively combines the ways in which scholars from fields as diverse as philosophy, psychology, religious studies, literary studies, history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and economics have integrated the study of Sikhism within a wide range of critical and postcolonial perspectives on the nature of religion, violence, gender, ethno-nationalism, and revisionist historiography.

The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies innovatively combines the ways in which scholars from fields as diverse as philosophy, psychology, religious studies, literary studies, history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and economics have integrated the study of Sikhism within a wide range of critical and postcolonial perspectives on the nature of religion, violence, gender, ethno-nationalism, and revisionist historiography.

This book presents for the first time a full translation and analysis of a newly discovered bamboo divination manual from the fourth century BCE China, called the Stalk Divination Method (Shifa).

This book presents for the first time a full translation and analysis of a newly discovered bamboo divination manual from the fourth century BCE China, called the Stalk Divination Method (Shifa).

The Records of Mazu and the Making of Classical Chan Literature explores the growth, makeup, and transformation of Chan (Zen) Buddhist literature in late medieval China.

The Records of Mazu and the Making of Classical Chan Literature explores the growth, makeup, and transformation of Chan (Zen) Buddhist literature in late medieval China.

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

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

'Drunk or sober, king or soldier, none will be excluded'Sensual, profound, delighted, wise, Hafez's poems have enchanted their readers for more than 600 years.

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.

The Book of the Dead is a unique collection of funerary texts from a wide variety of sources, dating from the fifteenth to the fourth century BC.

While Buddhism has no central text such as the Bible or the Koran, there is a powerful body of scripture from across Asia that encompasses the dharma, or the teachings of Buddha.

Set alongside The Analects and Mencius, these two texts make up the 'Four Books' of Chinese Confucian tradition.

'The Master said, "e;If a man sets his heart on benevolence, he will be free from evil"e;'The Analects are a collection of Confucius's sayings brought together by his pupils shortly after his death in 497 BC.

Composed during a critical time in the evolution of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart (c.

Jacob Bohme (1575-1624) has been recognized as one of the internationally most influential German authors of the Early Modern period.

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A companion series to the acclaimed Word Biblical CommentaryFinding the great themes of the books of the Bible is essential to the study of God's Word and to the preaching and teaching of its truths.

This book offers a new, multidisciplinary way of thinking about the Kingdom of God which fully recognises its sociological and spatial significance in performing boundaries of the sacred.

Im Titel des Buches heißt es "ES WERDE LICHT!

This centuries-old document explains five core beliefs for which thousands of Christians chose exile over security and, for many, a martyrs death over long life.