The philosophy of spirituality : analytic, continental, and multicultural approaches to a new field of philosophy / edited by Heather Salazar, Roderick Nicholls.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Salazar, Heather, editor.

Nicholls, Roderick, editor.

Series:

Value inquiry book series ; v. 322.

Value inquiry book series. Philosophy and religion

Value Inquiry Book Series, 0929-8436 ; volume 322. Philosophy and religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spirituality.

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Philosophy and religion.

Physical Description:

ix, 346 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill-Rodopi, 2019.

Summary:

The essays in The Philosophy of Spirituality explore a new field in philosophy. Until recently, most philosophers in the analytic and continental Western traditions treated spirituality as a religious concept. Any non-religious spirituality tended to be neglected or dismissed as irremediably vague. Here, from various philosophical and cultural perspectives, it is addressed as a subject of independent interest. 0This is a philosophical response to increasing numbers of spiritual but not religious people inhabiting secular societies and the heightened interaction between a multitude of spiritual traditions in a globalized age. A provocative array of approaches (African, Indigenous, Indian, Stoic, and Sufic perspectives, as well as Western analytic and continental views) offer fresh insights, many articulated by emerging voices.0Contributors are Mariapaola Bergomi, Moses Biney, Christopher Braddock, Drew Chastain, Kerem Eksen, Nikolay Milkov, Roderick Nicholls, Jerry Piven, Heather Salazar, Eric Steinhart, Richard White, Mark Wynn and Eric Yang.

Contents:

Part 1 Understanding Spirituality

1 Understanding Spirituality p. 15 / Heather Salazar and Roderick Nicholls

2 Renewing the Senses: Conversion Experience and the Phenomenology of the Spiritual Life p. 18 / Mark Wynn

3 Spiritual Experience and Imagination p. 38 / Eric Yang

4 Sinister and Sublime Aspects of Spirituality p. 59 / Jerry Piven

Part 2 Spirituality across Traditions

5 Spirituality across Traditions p. 93 / Heather Salazar and Roderick Nicholls

6 Is Yogic Enlightenment Dependent upon God? p. 97 / Heather Salazar

7 Spirituality from the Margins: West African Spirituality and Aesthetics p. 122 / Moses Biney

8 Non-religious Spirituality in the Greek Age of Anxiety p. 143 / Mariapaola Bergomi

9 Becoming a Hollow Bone: Lakota Respect for the Sacred p. 164 / Drew Chastain

10 Silence will Change the World: Kierkegaard, Derrida and Islamic Sufism p. 189 / Christopher Braddock

Part 3 Critical Perspectives and Re-inventions of Spirituality

11 Critical Perspectives and Re-Inventions of Spirituality p. 211 / Roderick Nicholls and Heather Salazar

12 Care of Self and Amor Fati as a Spiritual Ideal p. 214 / Roderick Nickolls

13 Bertrand Russell's Religion without God p. 250 / Nikolay Milkov

14 Truth in Practice: Foucault's Procedural Approach to Spirituality p. 273 / Kerem Eksen

15 Spirit, Soul and Self-overcoming: a Post-Jungian View p. 293 / Richard White

16 Spiritual Naturalism p. 312 / Eric Steinhart.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Philosophy of spirituality

ISBN:

9789004376298

9004376291

OCLC:

1057240139