Human Interaction With The Divine The Sacred And The Deceased

Author : Thomas G. Plante,Gary E. Schwartz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000418002

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Human Interaction with the Divine, the Sacred, and the Deceased by Thomas G. Plante,Gary E. Schwartz Pdf

Human Interaction with the Divine, the Sacred, and the Deceased brings together cutting-edge empirical and theoretical contributions from scholars in fields including psychology, theology, ethics, neuroscience, medicine, and philosophy, to examine how and why humans engage in, or even seek spiritual experiences and connection with the immaterial world. In this richly interdisciplinary volume, Plante and Schwartz recognize human interaction with the divine and departed as a cross-cultural and historical universal that continues to concern diverse disciplines. Accounting for variances in belief and human perception and use, the book is divided into four major sections: personal experience; theological consideration; medical, technological, and scientific considerations; and psychological considerations with chapters addressing phenomena including prayer, reincarnation, sensed presence, and divine revelations. Featuring scholars specializing in theology, psychology, medicine, neuroscience, and ethics, this book provides a thoughtful, compelling, evidence-based, and contemporary approach to gain a grounded perspective on current understandings of human interaction with the divine, the sacred, and the deceased. Of interest to believers, questioners, and unbelievers alike, this volume will be key reading for researchers, scholars, and academics engaged in the fields of religion and psychology, social psychology, behavioral neuroscience, and health psychology. Readers with a broader interest in spiritualism, religious and non-religious movements will also find the text of interest.

Author : Thomas G. Plante,Gary E. Schwartz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000418026

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Human Interaction with the Divine, the Sacred, and the Deceased by Thomas G. Plante,Gary E. Schwartz Pdf

Human Interaction with the Divine, the Sacred, and the Deceased brings together cutting-edge empirical and theoretical contributions from scholars in fields including psychology, theology, ethics, neuroscience, medicine, and philosophy, to examine how and why humans engage in, or even seek spiritual experiences and connection with the immaterial world. In this richly interdisciplinary volume, Plante and Schwartz recognize human interaction with the divine and departed as a cross-cultural and historical universal that continues to concern diverse disciplines. Accounting for variances in belief and human perception and use, the book is divided into four major sections: personal experience; theological consideration; medical, technological, and scientific considerations; and psychological considerations with chapters addressing phenomena including prayer, reincarnation, sensed presence, and divine revelations. Featuring scholars specializing in theology, psychology, medicine, neuroscience, and ethics, this book provides a thoughtful, compelling, evidence-based, and contemporary approach to gain a grounded perspective on current understandings of human interaction with the divine, the sacred, and the deceased. Of interest to believers, questioners, and unbelievers alike, this volume will be key reading for researchers, scholars, and academics engaged in the fields of religion and psychology, social psychology, behavioral neuroscience, and health psychology. Readers with a broader interest in spiritualism, religious and non-religious movements will also find the text of interest.

Author : Glenys Caswell
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781804550076

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Time of Death by Glenys Caswell Pdf

Addressing a gap in social science research to explore the meanings, understandings, and experiences of time at life’s most critical point, this book takes a thoughtful sociological approach to questions about how humans use and experience time in relation to when someone dies.

Author : Andrzej K. Jastrzębski
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000686326

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Integrating Spirituality into Counseling by Andrzej K. Jastrzębski Pdf

Integrating Spirituality into Counseling uses the Christian tradition as a starting point for developing a universal frame of reference and is predominantly based on an existential approach to counseling, one that is applicable to several faith traditions as well as spiritual but nonreligious audiences. The chapters of this book proceed from the theoretical toward the more practical, in a logical fashion, allowing a clear distinction between different topics, starting from meta-reflection and finishing with practical applications. The design of the book allows students to focus on whatever is of importance to them; each chapter is self-contained and can be read independently of the others. Integrating Spirituality into Counseling is designed for students of counseling, pastoral care, spirituality, theology, and chaplaincy. It will provide readers with the tools they need to work with spiritual issues across traditions. Students will also find advice for when to refer clients to religious leaders or ministers, and they’ll also deepen their understanding of the ways in which spirituality influences one’s life.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190905552

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The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality by Anonim Pdf

Postmaterial spiritual psychology posits that consciousness can contribute to the unfolding of material events and that the human brain can detect broad, non-material communications. In this regard, this emerging field of postmaterial psychology marks a stark departure from psychology's traditional assumptions about materialism, making this text particularly attractive to the current generation of students in psychology and related health and wellness disciplines. For the most part, Gen Z is implicitly postmaterialist. This updated edition of The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality codifies the leading empirical evidence in the support and application of postmaterial psychological science. Lisa J. Miller has gathered together a group of ground-breaking scholars to showcase their work of many decades that has come further to fruition in the past ten years with the collective momentum of a spiritual renaissance in psychological science. Relevant to both current university students and established scientists and practitioners ready for new models and direction, the chapters trace with epistemological clarity the core questions of psychological science: How does the brain really work? How might experimental design reveal that all people truly are connected at the level of consciousness, both during our lives and after our deaths? Are there multiple pathways to awakening a spiritual reality? How can we pursue growth and spiritual transformation? With new and updated chapters from leading scholars in psychology, medicine, physics, and biology, the Handbook is an interdisciplinary reference for a rapidly emerging approach to contemporary science. Highlighting fresh ideas and supporting science, this overarching work provides both a foundation and a roadmap for what is truly a new ideological age.

Author : Armin Lange,Emanuel Tov,Matthias Weigold
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1015 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9789004189034

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The Dead Sea Scrolls in Context by Armin Lange,Emanuel Tov,Matthias Weigold Pdf

The Dead Sea Scrolls enrich many areas of biblical research, as well as the study of ancient and rabbinic Judasim, early Christian and other ancient literatures, languages, and cultures. With nearly all Dead Sea Scrolls published, it is now time to integrate the Dead Sea Scrolls fully into the various disciplines that benefit from them. This two-volume collection of essays answers this need. It represents the proceedings of a conference jointly organized by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Vienna in Vienna on February 11 14, 2008.

Author : E. Janet Warren
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620324035

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Cleansing the Cosmos by E. Janet Warren Pdf

Adaptation of the author's Ph. D. thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012.

Author : Yohan Yoo,James W. Watts
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000392845

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Cosmologies of Pure Realms and the Rhetoric of Pollution by Yohan Yoo,James W. Watts Pdf

This collaboration between two scholars from different fields of religious studies draws on three comparative data sets to develop a new theory of purity and pollution in religion, arguing that a culture’s beliefs about cosmological realms shapes its pollution ideas and its purification practices. The authors of this study refine Mary Douglas’ foundational theory of pollution as "matter out of place," using a comparative approach to make the case that a culture’s cosmology designates which materials in which places constitute pollution. By bringing together a historical comparison of Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean religions, an ethnographic study of indigenous shamanism on Jeju Island, Korea, and the reception history of biblical rhetoric about pollution in Jewish and Christian cultures, the authors show that a cosmological account of purity works effectively across multiple disparate religious and cultural contexts. They conclude that cosmologies reinforce fears of pollution, and also that embodied experiences of purification help generate cosmological ideas. Providing an innovative insight into a key topic of ritual studies, this book will be of vital interest to scholars and graduate students in religion, biblical studies, and anthropology.

Author : Marcel Poorthuis,Joshua Jay Schwartz,Joseph Turner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004171503

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Interaction Between Judaism and Christianity in History, Religion, Art, and Literature by Marcel Poorthuis,Joshua Jay Schwartz,Joseph Turner Pdf

This volume contains essays dealing with complex relationships between Judaism and Christianity, taking a bold step, assuming that no historical period can be excluded from the interactive process between Judaism and Christianity, conscious or unconscious, as either rejection or appropriation

Author : Vensus A. George
Publisher : CRVP
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 9781565182486

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Paths to the Divine by Vensus A. George Pdf

Author : Susan Guettel Cole
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520235441

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Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space by Susan Guettel Cole Pdf

A thorough exploration of the idea of sacred space in Ancient Greece including prohibitions, ordainment, and requirements of sacred sites with a special focus on gendered space.

Author : Kenneth N. Ngwa,Aliou Cissé Niang,Arthur Pressley
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781531502997

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Life Under the Baobab Tree by Kenneth N. Ngwa,Aliou Cissé Niang,Arthur Pressley Pdf

Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age is a compendium of innovating essays meticulously written by early and later diaspora people of African descent. Their speech arises from the depth of their experiences under the Baobab tree and offers to the world voices of resilience, newness/resurrection, hope, and life. Resolutely journeying on the trails of their ancestors, they speak about setbacks and forward-looking movements of liberation, social transformation, and community formation. The volume is a carefully woven conversation of intellectual substance and structure across time, space, and spirituality that is quintessentially “Africana” in its centering of methodological, theoretical, epistemological, and hermeneutical complexity that assumes nonlinear and dialogical approaches to developing liberating epistemologies in the face of imperialism, colonialism, racism, and religious intolerance. A critical part of this conversation is a reconceptualization and reconfiguration of the concept of religion in its colonial and imperial forms. Life Under the Baobab Tree examines how Africana peoples understand their corporate experiences of the divine not as “religion” apart from its intimate connections to social realities of communal health, economics, culture, politics, environment, violence, war, and dynamic community belonging. To that end Afro-Pessimistic formulations of life placed in dialogic relation Afro-Optimism. Both realities constitute life under the Baobab tree and represent the sturdiness and variation that anchors the deep ruptures that have affected Africana life and the creative responses. The metaphor and substance of the tree resists reductionist, essentialist, and assured conclusions about the nature of diasporic lived experiences, both within the continent of Africa and in the African Diaspora.

Author : Richard J. Reidy
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781440192470

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Eternal Egypt by Richard J. Reidy Pdf

Eternal Egypt: Ancient Rituals for the Modern World is the first comprehensive collection of important temple rituals performed throughout Egypt during the time of the pharaohs. The author presents seven key rites from official temple records and ancient esoteric texts for personal or group use. This guidebook also: - presents rituals in a form designed to assist initiates in restoring the ancient rites of Egypt; - provides for modern usage, key ritual texts coming solely from authenticated ancient sources; - contains easy to follow commentaries and background information on each ritual, including symbolism and mythology not previously available in one book; - gives text with commentary for the “Opening of the Mouth” ceremony; - offers practical information for conducting these rituals in today’s world. Formerly only available to the scholar and professional Egyptologist, these ritual texts reveal the deeply spiritual understanding of humanity’s relationship to divinity that characterized the ancient Egyptian sense of the sacred. This is a practical intermediate level text for those wishing to worship the great deities of ancient Egypt in as authentic a manner as possible, and by so doing tap into the great spiritual heritage that sustained Egyptian culture for over three thousand years.

Author : Various contributors
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780141956664

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The Penguin Handbook of Ancient Religions by Various contributors Pdf

This overview of the religious customs of ancient cultures boasts an international selection of contributors, all of whom are leading scholars in their field. The cultural practices of popular as well as formal religion are explored in detail, giving an impression of all, not only elite societies. Every topic is placed in its own cultural context, while bearing in mind its relevance to a wider historical and sociological debate. The result is an erudite and thoroughly readable handbook to ancient religions, from Palaeolithic cave art to the rituals of Aztec and Inca civilizations.

Author : Garrett B. Trott
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781476671161

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The Faithful Librarian by Garrett B. Trott Pdf

What do Christianity and librarianship have in common? Netherlands Prime Minister and theologian Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) was among the first in the modern era to attempt to rejoin the dichotomy of sacred vs. secular study when he said, "no single piece of our mental world is to be hermetically sealed off from the rest." Over the years a number of publications have followed Kuyper's lead yet little has been written on the subject since Greg A. Smith's notable Christian Librarianship (2002). Building on Smith's work, this volume seeks to bridge the sacred/secular divide with an exploration of how Christianity and the gospel are manifested through the profession of librarianship.