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