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Living spirit, living practice : poetics, politics, epistemology / Ruth Frankenberg.

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection Pre-2008 Archive Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Frankenberg, Ruth.
Series:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Spirituality--United States--Case studies.
Spirituality.
Syncretism (Religion)--United States.
Syncretism (Religion).
Physical Description:
1 online resource (318 p.)
Place of Publication:
Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
An ethnographic study of the growing number of self-invented East-West hybrid religious practices in the U.S.
Contents:
On rivers, mountains and secrets : an introduction to the study and its subjects
Talking to God
and God talking back
Mind embodied : spiritual practice and consciousness
Place and the making of religious practice
The spirit of the work : challenging oppression, nurturing diversity
Conscious sex, sacred celibacy : sexuality and the spiritual path.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-297) and index.
ISBN:
9786613023735
9781283023733
1283023733
9780822385523
082238552X
OCLC:
191222278

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