Catholic Spirituality and the History of Religions

by Carmody, Denise Lardner; Carmody, John Tully

• ISBN13: 9780809132850
• ISBN10: 0809132850
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-01-01
• Publisher: Paulist Pr

Table of Contents

Preface to the Series
Preface	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
The History of Religions	p. 3
Catholic Spirituality	p. 6
Prayer and Social Justice	p. 9
This Book	p. 13
Religions of Oral Peoples	p. 17
Paleolithic Myths	p. 17
Paleolithic Justice	p. 20
Native American Creation Accounts	p. 23
Meso-American Images	p. 27
A Sioux Vision	p. 30
Delaware Gratitude	p. 33
A Mashona Prayer	p. 36
BaMbuti Solidarity	p. 40
A Maori Myth	p. 43
Australian Ambivalence about Sacred Forces	p. 46
Hinduism and Buddhism	p. 51
Vedic Sacrifice	p. 51
Upanishadic Wisdom	p. 54
Caste	p. 57
Manu on Teachers and Parents	p. 61
Buddhist Mindfulness	p. 64
Buddhist Devotion	p. 67
Monastic Morality	p. 70
Political Counsel	p. 74
Chinese and Japanese Religion	p. 78
The Analects on Sacrifice and God	p. 78
The Successful Ruler	p. 81
Chu Hsi on Love	p. 85
Lao Tzu	p. 88
Chuang Tzu	p. 91
Taoist Politics	p. 95
Shinto Spirituality	p. 98
Shinto as a Political Ideology	p. 101
Judaism and Islam	p. 106
Psalm I	p. 106
Mysticism	p. 109
Finding God	p. 112
Wisdom and Justice	p. 116
Merrymaking and Peace	p. 119
The Beginning of the Qur'an	p. 122
Sufi Love	p. 126
Almsgiving and Pilgrimage	p. 129
Women	p. 132
War	p. 135
Methodological Issues	p. 140
Faith	p. 140
The Sacred	p. 143
Hermeneutics	p. 146
Humanism	p. 150
Personalism in Spirituality	p. 153
Christ in Christian Spirituality	p. 156
Conclusion	p. 161
The God Revealed in the History of Religions	p. 161
Current Secularism	p. 164
Compassion	p. 167
Christ and Prayer	p. 171
Index	p. 175
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