Spirituality category: 222996 books
Secular Spirituality
The Next Step Towards Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
This book discusses spirituality as an emerging scientific topic from a historical perspective, with extensive discussion of the mind-body problem and of scientific concepts of consciousness. While the book focuses on the Western tradition of ‘Enlightenment’, it also implicitly addresses the double...
Wicca's Charm
Understanding the Spiritual Hunger Behind the Rise of Modern Witchcraft and Pagan Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
How Wiccan Spirituality Is Filling a Spiritual Hunger in America
Hundreds of thousands of people practice Wicca and other forms of modern Pagan spirituality in America today, and journalist Catherine Edwards Sanders wanted to understand why such belief systems are rapidly attracting followers....
by Paul Green, Padmaprabha Dalby, Harriet Mowat
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Positive shifts in attitudes mean that emphasis is now being placed on the person with dementia and their personal relationships, rather than the illness. There is also growing recognition of the significance of a person's spiritual life in forming an essential basis for their sense of identity, and...
Threshold of Discovery
A Field Guide to Spirituality in Midlife
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
• Thoughtful exploration of midlife spirituality through the prism of nature walks • Study questions for each section Roger Owens, facing a “dark night of the soul” as he turned forty and entered midlife, was encouraged by his spiritual director to think of it instead as a “threshold of...
Sex and the Sacred
Gay Identity and Spiritual Growth
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A down-to-earth look at the spiritual power of sex
Sex and the Sacred examines the spiritual dimension of human sexuality in a way that is free of religious affiliation but still open to traditional religion and belief in God. Dr. Daniel Helminiak, author of the best-selling What the Bible...
Spirituality for Our Global Community
Beyond Traditional Religion to a World at Peace
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2008
In this groundbreaking book, Daniel Helminiak provides a crucial spiritual option D a middle path between modern society's secular materialism and traditional religion's other-worldly focus and institutional dogmatism. The functional atheism of our contemporary consumer and scientific society (as...
A Special Illumination
Authority, Inspiration and Heresy in Gay Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Gay spirituality represents a hidden strand in Western thought that was only publically declared from the Gay Liberation of the 1970s. Since "coming out", expressions of gay spirituality have proliferated in both number and diversity. Beginning with gay theology within Christianity, the...
Capitalizing Religion
Ideology and the Opiate of the Bourgeoisie
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Talk of 'spirituality' and 'individual religion' is proliferating both in popular discourse and scholarly works. Increasingly people claim to be 'spiritual but not religious,' or to prefer 'individual religion' to 'organized religion.' Scholars have for decades noted the phenomenon - primarily within...
by Toby Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2018
GAY SPIRITUALITY: Gay Identity and the Transformation of Consciousness offers a sensible, modern and enlightened understanding of spiritual consciousness for gay men who are so often faced with misunderstanding and conflict dealing with traditional religion. Acclaimed author Toby Johnson presents...
Spiritual Guides
Pathfinders in the Desert
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
In Spiritual Guides: Pathfinders in the Desert, Fred Dallmayr challenges the "desert character" of modern culture. Political and economic corruption, incessant warmongering, spoliation of natural resources, and, above all, mindless consumerism and greedy self-satisfaction are all symptoms...
by Harry Jay
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Religion & Spirituality - Pastors as Counselors weaves
its way through the intricate world of counseling specifically
as it pertains to licensed ministers and pastors. Living in a
litigious society, pastors providing counseling services are
quickly becoming a thing of the past. A pastor attempting...
Insanity and Divinity
Studies in Psychosis and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
How close is spirituality to psychosis?
Covering the interrelation of psychosis and spirituality from a number of angles, Insanity and Divinity will generate dialogue and discussion, aid critical reflection and stimulate creative approaches to clinical work for those interested in the connections...
by Paul-Marie of the Cross, OCD, Kathryn Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Revised edition of classic overview of the principal texts, themes, and teachings of Carmel: Elijah and Mary, the Rule of St. Albert, the Carmelite understanding of prayer, and the message of Sts. Teresa, John of the Cross, and Thérèse.
Carmel is known above all...
Soul Talk
The New Spirituality of African American Women
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
• A celebration of the journey of African-American women toward a new spirituality grounded in social awareness, black American tradition, metaphysics, and heightened creativity.
• Features illuminating insights from Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, Lucille Clifton, Dolores Kendrick, Sonia...