Once-Born, Twice-Born Zen
Once-Born, Twice-Born Zen

Author: Conrad Hyers

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2004-01-26

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 1592444962

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'Once-Born, Twice-Born Zen' is a fresh treatment of the two major Zen schools of Japan. Its biographical and comparative approach is both original and very readable. The use of William James' typology, along with other phenomenological categories, provides the reader with helpful handles for distinguishing the schools, as well as similar tendencies in other religious traditions. The book should make an excellent text for introductory and middle-level courses in which one is trying to get students to develop categories for understanding religious experience and behavior. Readers will see something of themselves in the range of biographical examples given, and will detect their own tendencies through the use of this method. -- Bardwell Smith

Leaving The Fold
Leaving The Fold

Author: Edward T. Babinski

Publisher: Prometheus Books

Published: 2003-06-30

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 1615921672

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This riveting new collection offers testimonies of former fundamentalists who became disillusioned with their churches and left. Presenting more than two dozen personal journeys, this book gives a clear picture of what attracts a person to the fundamentalist faith and what can drive believers away from their religion. Photos throughout.

Traditions in Contact and Change
Traditions in Contact and Change

Author: Peter Slater

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 769

ISBN-13: 0889206104

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"Traditions in Contact and Change" was the theme of the fourteenth quinquennial congress of the International Association for the History of Religions. This selection from 450 papers by scholars form all over the world address the theme. Section One, "Indian Traditions and Western Interactions," treats subjects ranging from the flood story in Vedic ritual to a s study of the women of the Nehru family. Section Two, "Buddhist, Chinese, and Japanese Studies," includes discussions of the origin of the Mahayana, William James and Japanese Buddhism, and lyrical imagery and religious content in Japanese art. Section Three, "Mediterranean Cultures," covers a broad range of topics, from foster children in early Christianity to "the transformation of Christianity into Roman religion" to the change in the status of women in Iceland from pagan to Christian times. Section Four, "Islamic, African, and Amerindian Developments," examines such subjects as religions in conflict and change in the works of African novelists, tradition and change in Indian Islam, and religious acculturation among Oglala Lakota. Section Five offers "Methodological and Theoretical Discussions" of women's studies, Western perceptions of Asia, structure in Jung and Lévi-Strauss, among others. The essays provide ready access to the leading edge of scholarship across a wide range of religions and cultures and should be of interest to students of religion, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy.

Meditation
Meditation

Author: Luis S.R. Vas

Publisher: Pustak Mahal

Published: 2004-12

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 8122306918

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This is an excellent practical guide to learn the wide-ranging forms of meditation techniques practised in the ancient times as well as the present.

Ineffability: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion
Ineffability: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion

Author: Timothy D. Knepper

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-11-24

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 3319641654

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This collection of essays is an exercise in comparative philosophy of religion that explores the different ways in which humans express the inexpressible. It brings together scholars of over a dozen religious, literary, and artistic traditions, as part of The Comparison Project's 2013-15 lecture and dialogue series on "religion beyond words." Specialist scholars first detailed the grammars of ineffability in nine different religious traditions as well as the adjacent fields of literature, poetry, music, and art. The Comparison Project's directors then compared this diverse set of phenomena, offering explanations for their patterning, and raising philosophical questions of truth and value about religious ineffability in comparative perspective. This book is the inaugural publication of The Comparison Project, an innovative new approach to the philosophy of religion housed at Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa, USA). The Comparison Project organizes a biennial series of scholar lectures, practitioner dialogues, and comparative panels about core, cross-cultural topics in the philosophy of religion. Specialist scholars of religion first explore this topic in their religions of expertise; comparativist philosophers of religion then raise questions of meaning, truth, and value about this topic in comparative perspective. The Comparison Project stands apart from traditional approaches to the philosophy of religion in its commitment to religious inclusivity. It is the future of the philosophy of religion in a diverse, global world.

Encyclopedia of Monasticism
Encyclopedia of Monasticism

Author: William M. Johnston

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-04

Total Pages: 2000

ISBN-13: 113678716X

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First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Laughing Buddha
The Laughing Buddha

Author: Conrad Hyers

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2004-01-26

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1725209373

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This book has been highly acclaimed both as an imaginative way of introducing the Zen tradition to Western readers, and as an important contribution to understanding the fullness of the Zen perspective and way of life.