| Description |
1 online resource (335 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Endorsements Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword by Sandra M. Schneiders -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Goals of this Book -- Christian Spirituality and the Human Sciences -- No one field of Study has all the Answers -- Refinement of Research Strategies -- Christian Spirituality is Self-Implicating -- Methodology for Studies in Christian Spirituality -- Core Methodological Principles -- Note -- 1 Questions of Definitions and Methods -- Introduction -- Spirituality -- Secular Understanding of Spirituality |
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The Spirit of Spirituality -- Spirituality in the Everyday of Life -- Spirituality Marketed as a Product -- Christian Spirituality -- The History of the Word Spirituality in the Christian Traditions -- Christian Spirituality: Some Working Definitions -- Christian Spirituality and Theology -- Methods in the Study of Christian Spirituality -- Theological Method -- Historical Method -- Anthropological Method -- Hermeneutical Method -- Christian Spirituality and Spiritual Theology -- Points of Intersection: Christian Spirituality and Spiritual Theology -- Spirituality and Religion |
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Christian Spirituality and Experience -- The Nature of Experience -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- 2 Questions of Context -- Introduction -- Geographic Settings and Influence on Personal Identity -- The Expulsion of God from Ordinary Place -- Images and Symbols come from Place -- Geography and Sacred Space: The Desert and the City -- The Desert -- The City -- The Contribution of Sociology to Context -- The Rejection of Spirituality by Sociologists -- Sociology of Religion and Spirituality -- Specific benefits of Sociological Studies in Christian Spirituality |
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Point of Departure for Studies in Sociology and Spirituality -- Spiritual but not Religious -- Modernism to Postmodernism: The Context of being "in-between" -- The Modern Period -- A Caveat Concerning the Enlightenment use of Reason -- The Postmodern Period -- The Dismantling of Clear Religious Belief: The Rise of Spirituality -- The Marketplace Approach to Spirituality -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- 3 Questions of God -- Introduction -- Models of God -- Practical Importance of Models of God -- Openness to Many Models -- Models of God Reveal a Philosophy of Life |
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Which Models of God? -- Evolving Models of God and Cosmology -- Shifts in Christian Cosmology: The place of the Planet Earth -- God in a Postmodern World -- The Apophatic and Kataphatic Ways -- Apophatic Spirituality -- Kataphatic Spirituality -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- 4 Questions of being Human -- Introduction -- The Imago Dei -- The Nature of the Self -- Characteristics of the Self -- The Self as Defined by Culture: The Pre-Modern, Modern, and Postmodern Self -- Pre-Modern Self -- Modern Self -- Postmodern Self -- Issues at Stake: The Changing Notion of the Self |
| Summary |
This interdisciplinary volume proposes a framework to discover how spirituality can be understood beyond the conventional boundaries that religions have established |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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The Nature of Self-knowledge |
| Subject |
Personnel management -- Research.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781003861645 |
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1003861644 |
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