Spirituality & religious experience (51)

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:Humanity's long history of intermittent conflicts and contemporary violence undermines Christian's (and their Jewish and Muslim fellow believers) religious confidence in and moral commitment to world peace. The principal issue is the ambiguity of God...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:This book demonstrates principles of Ancestor Veneration Avatars (AVAs), by running avatars based on eleven deceased members of one family through ten highly diverse virtual worlds from the violent Defiance to the intellectual Uru: Myst Online, from ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This volume celebrates the work of Laszlo Zsolnai, a leading researcher and scholar in the field of the ethical and spiritual aspects of economic life, who has made significant contributions to the connection between ethics, spirituality, aesthetics ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Ein neuer Blick auf die Entwicklung der Religionen In diesem Buch geht es um die Evolution der Religionen, also um die Frage, wie und warum sich Religionen im Laufe ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung verändern und welche Gesetzmäßigkeiten diesen Verän...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This book explores the reciprocity between Buddhist, Derridean, and Foucauldian understandings about ethics, subjectivity, and ontological contingency, to investigate the ethical and political potential of insight meditation practice. The book is nar...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This volume considers the phenomenon of yoga travel as an instance of a broader genre of ‘spiritual travel’ involving journeys to places ‘elsewhere’, which are imagined to offer the possibility of profound personal transformation. These imaginings ar...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This volume is the first English-language anthology to engage with the fascinating phenomena of recent surges in New Age and alternative spiritualties in Israel. Contributors investigate how these New Age religions and other spiritualties—produced in...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:Dance has proliferated in movies, television, Internet, and retail spaces while the spiritual power of dance has also been linked with mass consumption. Walter marries the cultural studies of dance and the religious aspects of dance in an exploration...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:In diesem Buch über Glück und Melancholie können alle, die von dem Trend-Phänomen Glücksstreben ermüdet sind, erfahren, was zu einem wirklich guten Leben gehören könnte. In einer Zeit, zu der man den Eindruck bekommt, jeder Zweite sei von Burnout bet...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:This volume offers a sample of reflections from scholars and practitioners on the theme of death and dying from scholars and practitioners, ranging from the Christian tradition to Hinduism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, while also touching on the themes o...

publisher: Springer
year: 2005
description:This study in the relationship between religion and the comic focuses on the ways in which the latter fulfils a central function in the sacred understanding of reality of pre-modern cultures and the spiritual life of religious traditions. The central...

publisher: Springer
year: 2009
description:Draws on mid-seventeenth to nineteenth-century slave narratives to describe oppression in the lives of enslaved African women. Investigates pre-colonial West and West Central African women's lives prior to European arrival to recover the cultural tra...