Spirituality and religious experience

Published in the years following 9/11, David Darks book The Gospel according to America warned American Christianity about the false worship that conflates love of country with love of God.

An in-depth examination of religious practices around the world and the fascinating science behind how they make us healthier.

A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option under the Islamic Republic offers, for the first time, an original, timely examination of the pivotal role poetry plays in policy, power and political legitimacy in modern-day Iran.

'A profoundly valuable collection, full of fresh perspective, and opening doors into all kinds of material that has been routinely neglected or patronized' Rowan Williams, TLSThis rich and surprising anthology is a holistic, global survey of a lyric conversation about the divine, one which has been ongoing for millennia.

Shenoute of Atripe led the White Monastery, a community of several thousand male and female Coptic monks in Upper Egypt, between approximately 395 and 465 C.

This book is an excellent introduction to the individuals, events and currents which shaped medieval English mystical texts.

This book presents a wide range of documents illustrating religious life in the Roman world from the early Republic to the late Empire.

Newman himself called the Oxford University Sermons, first published in 1843, `the best, not the most perfect, book I have done'.

Post-traumatic stress disorder is everywhere.

The Arc of Spirituality invites readers on a journey through Western history, a journey that begins with the pioneering concepts of ancient Israelites, who understood spirituality communally and covenantally.

The Enneagram Collection is for anyone who wants to have a deeper understanding of their Enneagram type.

This book is written as a memoir of 40-plus years of working with human experiences of death, grief, and bereavement.

El fenómeno místico aparece como una constante universal en todas las formaciones religiosas.

This life story of Milarepa--the important Tibetan religious leader who lived over 800 years ago--is part of a remarkable four-volume series on Tibetan Buddhism produced by the late W.

This important survey of alchemical symbols and doctrines sets forth the mysterious worldview and teachings of the practitioners of the "e;royal art.

Focusing on how someone in need can best be helped, the author identifies the skills and honesty of the person who wants to help as key to how effective this can be.

Looking for Scripture verses for guidance in your daily walk with Jesus?

The debate over women's roles in the Southern Baptist Convention's conservative ascendance is often seen as secondary to theological and biblical concerns.

The Iraq War caused emotional, physical, psychiatric, relational, and spiritual challenges to an untold number of military reservists and their families.

★ Publishers Weekly starred reviewOne of the Top 100 Books and One of the 5 Best Books in Religion for 2019, Publishers WeeklyChristianity Today 2020 Book Award Winner (Spiritual Formation)Outreach 2020 Resource of the Year (Spiritual Growth)Foreword INDIES 2019 Honorable Mention for ReligionThis is not a book about Saint Augustine.

Interfaith as a Faith-A Way to Move Past Preaching about Love and Compassion to Actually Practicing Them"e;A commitment to Interfaith is no small commitment.

Hope is a central topic in spiritual care.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOWIn 1939, as Europe approaches war, Isherwood, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed Leftism of the thirties.

Spirituality without God is the first global survey of godless spirituality.

One of the most striking features of contemporary psychology is the return of language of the 'soul' in contemporary discourse.

Understanding Religious Conversion begins with emphasis on the value of respecting religious/theological interpretations of conversion while coordinating social scientific studies of how personal, social, and cultural issues are relevant to the human transformational process.

Tracing the magico-religious beliefs surrounding birds as far back in time as is possible, to the cultures in which these beliefs arose.

Carrying only basic camping equipment and a collection of the world's great spiritual writings, Belden C.

On the little-known and darker side of shamanism there exists an ancient form of sorcery called kanaima, a practice still observed among the Amerindians of the highlands of Guyana, Venezuela, and Brazil that involves the ritual stalking, mutilation, lingering death, and consumption of human victims.

Created to counteract the spiritual imbalance that MI can cause, the Moral Injury Reconciliation (MIR) methodology is a 9-week, 3-phased spiritual care treatment, for Veteran and family transformation.

In The Synchronicity Key, David Wilcock goes beyond this new understanding to investigate how our universe works.

Through the 'dark night of the soul' to the depiction of the erotically-charged union of the soul and God, the poetry and prose works of the Spanish friar John of the Cross (1542-1591) offer a striking account of the transformation of the individual in the course of the Christian life.

Keeping God at the Center is informative as well as instructional.

A journey from Burning Man to the Akashic Field that suggest how 5-MeO-DMT triggers the human capacity for higher knowledge through direct contact with the zero-point field *; Examines Bufo alvarius toad venom, which contains the potent natural psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT, and explores its entheogenic use *; Proposes a new connection between the findings of modern physics and the knowledge held by shamans and religious sages for millennia The venom from Bufo alvarius, an unusual toad found in the Sonoran desert, contains 5-MeO-DMT, a potent natural chemical similar in effect to the more common entheogen DMT.

This is an informative and engaging book about monasticism, its history, practice, and relevance to contemporary life, combining personal insights with sound scholarship.

Popular retreat leader and former monk Robert Fruehwirth explores the stages of faith development using Julian's Revelations of Divine Love, inviting readers into a deeper, more honest and grounded faith.

This work is the product of seven years research based on historical documents that sets out to prove the authenticity and antiquity of the "e;Gospel of the Essenes,"e; which for 90 years has been considered by theologians a forgery, as the original manuscripts were lost.

In the midst of a nineteenth-century boom in spiritual experimentation, the Cercle Harmonique, a remarkable group of African-descended men, practiced Spiritualism in heavily Catholic New Orleans from just before the Civil War to the end of Reconstruction.

A spiritual travel memoir showing how the life of God can be found in the most unlikely places.

This illustrated book traces the history of an unlikely force in the shaping of Western civilization: the use of psychedelic mushrooms, namely by a secret society called the cult of Mithras.

The author of Christ at the Checkpoint analyzes the appeal of Pentecostalism, from the belief in miracles to tongue-talking to the prosperity gospel.

In this book, Wilson gives a thoroughly biblical foundation for gospel movements.

In diesem Buch wird versucht, Leserinnen und Lesern eine Hilfe anzubieten, mit Hilfe des kontemplativen Betens den christlichen Glauben zu verinnerlichen und dem Ziel näher zu kommen, das JESUS CHRISTUS folgendermaßen formuliert hat: "Ich habe die Herrlichkeit, die du mir gegeben hast, ihnen gegeben, damit sie eins seien, gleichwie wir eins sind.