A Pilgrimage of Paradoxes
A Pilgrimage of Paradoxes

Author: Mark Clavier

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-12-30

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0567703592

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Winner of the 2022 Nautilus Book Award in Religion / Spirituality of Western Thought (#24B) Mark Clavier examines a series of paradoxes that lie at the heart of Christian faith: eternity and time, silence and words, and wonder and the commonplace. In an intellectual reflection on an overnight trek on Cadair Idris in Wales and other wilderness walks, he explores the oft-hidden connections between faith, society, and nature. Each reflection ranges widely through history, folklore, poetry, philosophy, and theology to consider what these paradoxes can teach us about God, ourselves, and our world. Drawing on the recent upsurge in interest in the personal experience of landscapes and memory, this book invites readers to walk with Clavier in the Appalachians, Norway, Iceland, the Alps, and around Britain as he discovers the ways in which Christianity is profoundly earthed. By weaving together nature-writing, memoir, social commentary, and theological reflection A Pilgrimage of Paradoxes uses a memorable mountain journey in the ancient landscape of Wales to draw readers into reflecting about what it means to belong. Please find the study guide for this book here: https://convivium-brecon.com/a-pilgrimage-of-paradoxes/

Pilgrimage--The Sacred Art
Pilgrimage--The Sacred Art

Author: Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook

Publisher: SkyLight Paths Publishing

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1594734720

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Explore the many dimensions of the pilgrimage experience and change your orientation to the world. "Pilgrimage is an opportunity for pilgrims to cultivate their inner life (or inner voice) in a way that leads to a greater sense of peace and compassion--a sense that pervades all of life." --from Chapter 6, "Preparing to Practice" Pilgrimage is a spiritual practice of nearly every major religion of the world. If you are a Christian you may travel to sites associated with the life of Jesus; Jews might visit the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem and other sacred places in the Holy Land of Israel; Muslims participate in the Hajj, the journey to Mecca; Buddhists visit the sacred sites related to the life of Buddha. Even if you practice no religion at all you will still find that you most likely participate in this practice--the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC, and Lenin's tomb in Moscow are considered national pilgrimage sites. As a spiritual practice, pilgrimage transcends religious, national, cultural and linguistic boundaries. This fascinating look at the sacred art of pilgrimage integrates spirituality, practice, spiritual formation, psychology, world religions and historical resources. It examines how the world's religious pilgrimages evolved as central spiritual practices and the relationship between pilgrimage and transformation. It explains what makes a place holy, and why and how some sites are so compelling that they attract thousands, even millions of pilgrims each year.

Identity Matters
Identity Matters

Author: James L. Peacock

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2007-05

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1845453115

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Case studies and theoretical essays introduce the basic principles necessary to identify and explain the symbols and practices each unique human group holds sacred or inalienable. The authors apply the methods of political science, social psychology, anthropology, journalism, and educational research. They build on the insights of Gordon Allport, Charles Taylor, and Max Weber to describe and analyze the patterns of behavior that social groups worldwide use to maintain their identities.

Religious Journeys in India
Religious Journeys in India

Author: Andrea Marion Pinkney

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2018-08-20

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1438466048

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In an increasingly global world where convenient modes of travel have opened the door to international and intraregional tourism and brought together people from different religious and ethnic communities, religious journeying in India has become the site of evolving and often paradoxical forms of self-construction. Through ethnographic reflections, the contributors to this volume explore religious and nonreligious motivations for religious travel in India and show how pilgrimages, missionary travel, the exportation of cultural art forms, and leisure travel among coreligionists are transforming not only religious but also regional, national, transnational, and personal identities. The volume engages with central themes in South Asian studies such as gender, exile, and spirituality; a variety of religions, including Sikhism, Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity; and understudied regions and emerging places of pilgrimage such as Manipur and Maharashtra.

Paradoxon
Paradoxon

Author: Janice Buswell

Publisher:

Published: 2019-11-19

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781951830007

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"Are you sure this is the journey you want to take?"Rae fled from the edge of the city. She was late. Already the rumble of the nightly riot had begun. But as she ran, she had no idea it would be for the last time? "Paradoxon: Invitation of the Dying Love" is the story of Rae who was born in the stratified city of Onze. Thrown into a rocky companionship with four perfect strangers united only by a common fear of the city's growing conflicts and by a cryptic invitation promising answers, she discovers that only the mysterious paradox of a "dying love" can save the city they've always known. That is, if each one can find the strength to embrace it? and by it to embrace one another?"

The Formation of the Primitive Baptist Movement
The Formation of the Primitive Baptist Movement

Author: Jeffrey Wayne Taylor

Publisher: Kitchener, Ont. : Pandora Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13:

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The primitive Baptists reacted against the incursion of modern theological and worship elements into their tradition, beginning in the 1830s. Jeffrey W. Taylor document the emergence and development of this "conservative" Believers Church tradition.

Honest to God Prayer
Honest to God Prayer

Author: Kent Ira Groff

Publisher: SkyLight Paths Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 159473433X

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Maybe you're praying and you don't even know it. In this unique and encouraging guide to prayer, Kent Ira Groff, a longtime retreat leader and inspiring writer-poet, explores how to engage in spirituality that blesses your soul--and the world. Whether you're advanced or just starting on your spiritual path, this practical prayer path breaker will lure you in with its novel combination of touching, real-life stories, pithy thoughts and inspiring prayer practices. For those turned off by shopworn religious language, it offers innovative ways to pray in four metaphorical movements that parallel both Native American traditions and Ignatian spirituality: East--Morning / Prayer as Awareness Waking up to reality--opening South--Noon / Prayer as Empowerment Embracing your dreams and possibilities--expanding West--Afternoon / Prayer as Relinquishment Letting go of attachments--emptying North--Night / Prayer as Paradox Uniting the opposites of life--integrating Prayer practices for each of the four "movements" provide for personal and group enrichment at home and work, in formal programs and informal friendships. They interweave the author's own experience to say: "This is honest to God spirituality and I'm seeing myself."