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Liberating mindfulness : from billion-dollar industry to engaged spirituality / Gail J. Stearns.

Van Pelt Library BR110 .S718 2022
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Stearns, Gail J., 1956- author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Christianity--Psychology.
Christianity.
Mindfulness (Psychology).
Thought and thinking--Religious aspects.
Thought and thinking.
Attention.
Awareness.
Psychology, Religious.
Spiritual life.
psychology of religion.
Medical Subjects:
Attention.
Awareness.
Physical Description:
xxv, 182 pages ; 21 cm
Place of Publication:
Maryknoll, New York : Orbis Books, [2022]
Summary:
"Attempts to reclaim mindfulness from the commercial and corporate juggernaut it has become and to demonstrate its usefulness in spiritual (including Christian) life"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE DECONSTRUCTING MINDFULNESS
1. A Journey into Mindfulness
Who Benefits from Mindfulness?
Who Teaches Mindfulness?
Mindfulness Emerges in the West
Mindfulness and Science
What Happened to Mindfulness?
2. What's the Use of Mindfulness?
The Construction of Mindfulness
Mindfulness and Compassion
Is Mindfulness Working?
3. Mindfulness Will Bring You Happiness
What's the Use of Happiness?
Mindfulness as a Happiness Object
Mindfulness: Awareness or Social Control?
May You Be Happy
4. What's the Use of Stress?
What Is Stress, Anyway?
Who's Got the Most Stress?
Alleviating Stress with Gratitude
Is Stress Inevitable?
5. Emotion: Gendered and Racialized
Collective Emotion
COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter
Tracking Emotion
Mindfulness Claims
Embedding Mindfulness in Justice Making
Terrence
Justice
Justin
Are We Being Mindful about Mindfulness?
pt. TWO LIBERATING MINDFULNESS
6. Liberating Mindfulness and Religion
Compulsory Secularization for Mindfulness
Liberating Religion with Mindfulness
The Practices of RAIN and RAINN
RAINN: Clairres Backstory
7. What Can We Learn from Buddhism?
The Four Noble Truths
Mindfulness Arises from Buddhism
Mindfulness in Vipassana Practice
Buddhist Meditation and Social Change
What Do We Learn from Buddhism?
8. Radical, Revolutionary Love: Contemplative Religious Practice
The Path of Radical Love
An Islamic Sufi Way
Revolutionary Love
A Pathway Born from Sikhism
Love and Justice in Jewish Mindfulness
Intertwining Mindfulness and Religion toward Liberation
9. Centering Prayer in Christianity
What Is Centering Prayer?
Insight Meditation and Centering Prayer
Contemplative Prayer and Mindfulness Tools
Characteristics of Centering Prayer
Intention
Devotion
Transparency
A Story of "Oneing"
10. Is Christianity Inconvenient to Empire?
Questioning "Surrender"
Contemplative Practice for the Dismantling of Empire
The Brothers of Taize
The Sisters of St. Gertrude
Mindfulness and Christian Practice.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Format:
Online version: Stearns, Gail J., 1956- Liberating mindfulness
ISBN:
9781626984714
1626984719
OCLC:
1284288995

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