Contemporary Spiritualities Social and Religious Contexts

by Erricker, Clive; Erricker, Jane

• ISBN13: 9780826449474
• ISBN10: 0826449476
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Focusing on the question "what does it mean to be human?" this engaging study attempts to overcome the divide between secular and religious understandings of spirituality.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Foreword	xi
Ewart Cousins
Introduction	xv
Clive Erricker
Jane Erricker
Part I: Influential Writers and Thinkers
Influential writers and thinkers: a retrospective reconsideration and a contemporary contextualization	3	(12)
Clive Erricker
Mysticism and contemporary society: some Teilhardian reflections	15	(17)
Ursula King
Bede Griffiths and the one universal reality	32	(16)
Shirley du Boulay
Thomas Merton: monk for the contemporary world	48	(14)
Danny Sullivan
Jiddu Krishnamurti and the open secret	62	(17)
Clive Erricker
The Dalai Lama: dimensions of spirituality	79	(14)
Geshe Thupten Jinpa
Carol Christ: feminist spirituality and narrative thealogy	93	(20)
Ruth Mantin
Part II: Faith Communities
Faith communities: spiritual diversity, hope and tension in the modern world	113	(12)
Clive Erricker
In the realm of the deathless: the Thai Buddhist Forest Retreat Order	125	(18)
Clive Erricker
A society in transition: ISKCON's spiritual path	143	(16)
Anna S. King
The Amish: case study of a religious community	159	(14)
Richard Stevick
`Until the power of the Lord comes down': African American Pentecostal spirituality and tarrying	173	(19)
David D. Daniels III
Taize: a global and postcolonial theology of community	192	(16)
Liam Gearon
The diaspora of the Khoja Shi'a Ithnasheeries	208	(16)
Clive Erricker
Street spirituality: a narrative case study of a street community	224	(14)
Jane Erricker
Bibliography	238	(7)
Name index	245	(2)
Subject index	247