Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Psychology of Religion

Highlights of this book include studies of the way in which Christianity is changing, the feminine dimension of God, and Jung's contribution to biblical humanities.

Volume includes:

Murray Stein - Jung's Green Christ: A Healing Symbol for Christianity

Carrin Dunne - Between Two Thieves: A Response to Jung's Critique of the Christian Notions of Good and Evil

David L. Miller - "Attack Upon Christendom " The Anti-Christianism of Depth Psychology

Nathan...

"When crystallized identities enter a nondual field of awareness and begin to interact with a being embodying that state, suffering can't be sustained. It dissolves into a space where there is neither suffering nor its absence. Nondual awareness creates a transformational field or vortex that gently or abruptly, but irrevocably moves people into radiant awareness.... This is the paradoxical state that bodhisattvas play in for eternity."

This Guide goes behind the curtains of Dr. Peter Fenner's highly distinctive nondual teachings. It reveals in great detail and clarity the subtle...

The Varieties of Religious Experience

"A Study in Human Nature"

William James

Preface

This book would never have been written had I not been honored with an appointment as Gifford Lecturer on Natural Religion at the University of Edinburgh. In casting about me for subjects of the two courses of ten lectures each for which I thus became responsible, it seemed to me that the first course might well be a descriptive one on "Man's Religious Appetites," and the second a metaphysical one on "Their Satisfaction through Philosophy." But the unexpected growth of the psychological matter as...

Ritual has long been a central concept in anthropological theories of religious transmission. Ritual, Performance and the Senses offers a new understanding of how ritual enables religious representations - ideas, beliefs, values - to be shared among participants.

Focusing on the body and the experiential nature of ritual, the book brings together insights from three distinct areas of study: cognitive/neuroanthropology, performance studies and the anthropology of the senses. Eight chapters by scholars from each of these sub-disciplines investigate different aspects of embodied...