Perceiving the divine through the human body: mystical sensuality

Cattoi and McDaniel present a selection of articles on the role of the body and the spiritual senses - our transfigured channels of sensory perceptions - in the context of spiritual practice. The volume investigates this theme acrossa variety of different religious traditions within Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Daoism. THOMAS CATTOI Assistant Professor of Christology and Cultures at Graduate Theological Union, USA. JUNE MCDANIEL Professor of the History of Religions atthe College of Charleston, USA. INDICE: Introduction: Spiritual Body, Spiritual Senses: Past and Present; 'J.McDaniel ' - PART I: SPIRITUAL SENSES AND DEIFIED BODIES - A Hindu Monk's Appreciation of Eastern Orthodoxy's Jesus Prayer: The 'Inner Senses' of Hearing, Seeing and Feeling in Comparative Perspective; 'J.Molleur' - Indo-Tibetan Tantrism as 'Spirit Marriage'; 'S.R.Sarbacker' - Experiencing the Single Savior:Divinizing the Body and the Senses in Tantric Buddhist Meditation;' D.Gray' -The Patristic Roots of John Smith's 'True Way or Method of Attaining to Divine Knowledge'; 'D.Michaud ' - PART II: ASCETIC PRACTICE AND EMBODIED TRANSCENDENCE - The Daoist Mystical Body; 'L.Komjathy ' - Daoist Mysticism: Embodiment, 'Eudaimonia', and Flow;' L.Weed ' - Liminality and Ambiguity: the Role of Bodily Suffering in the Mysticism of Christian the Astonishing; 'C.Radler', Assistant Professor of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University - 'The Body Gains its Share': The Asceticism of Mechthild of Magdeburg; 'M.V.Roberts ' - PART III: EMBODIED SPIRITUALITY AND MODERN MYSTICISM - Map of Consciousness: New Paradigm for Mysticism and Healing; 'F.Grace ' - The Diamond Approach: Towards an Embodied Spirituality for the Twenty-First Century; 'A.Gleig' - Reading Wisdom with Reich: Proverbs 8-9 as Interpreted through the Psychotherapy of Wilhelm Reich; 'N.Douglas-Klotz ' - Conclusion: The Virtues of Form; 'T.Cattoi'

• ISBN: 978-0-230-11974-1
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 264
• Fecha Publicación: 11/11/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés