Spirituality and religious experience Books

"Lucy's poems shine with the light of deeply embodied spirit. A dance of light upon the land." AdyashantiThis Untameable Light is here to remind you of your inherent wholeness and bring forgiveness, ease, humour and reverence to the sacred mess of being...

"The oak can develop itself, the lion feels its strength through its nerves, but the human has sunk down to the delusion that nature is too stingy towards him, and had only given him alone no positive powers and no innate growth. The human has like any...

In his follow-up to Spirituality 101-601 and Beyond, Shamaré explores the return to Holiness through Holy Karma - Divine Cause and Effect.To rediscover your Holiness and live again in the flow of Holy Karma requires a change of Mind which this book will...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER AWARD.The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything by the Revered James Martin, SJ (bestselling author of Jesus: A Pilgrimage) is a practical spiritual guidebook that shows you how to manage relationships,...

In this time of negativity, cynicism, division, and despair, the clarion call of Thelma Deva Beach to celebrate all that unites us is as profoundly welcome and delightfully refreshing as a spring shower on a long-parched desert. Embracing Our...

Since the 1971 White House Conference on Aging in the United States, the need to move from religiosity into new areas such as Spiritual Assessment and Spirituality has emerged. This movement has picked up momentum among scholars, particularly in terms of...

Religion, Culture and Spirituality in Africa and the African Diaspora explores the ways in which religious ideas and beliefs continue to play a crucial role in the lives of people of African descent. The chapters in this volume use historical and...

JERUSALEM  2020 proposes that people worldwide help to create a “New Deal” in the Middle East by becoming more aware & involved.  This ethical & compassionate, win-win agreement would employ, encourage & teach the...

“Silence, you can’t hear, see, or smell them. Stillness, darkness, hidden in the dark."The Holy Spirit is the greatest inspiration for writing this book. Through prayer the Holy Spirit told me to warn and alert people about the...

This award-winning book details why and how to develop cognitive empathy.Combining ideas from psychology and philosophy, this visual thinking manual will help you transform your inner world. Discover how the shapes of empathy can help you think with care...

At a time when the issue of homosexuality is polarising the Churchon an unprecedented scale, Micheal Ford meets gay and lesbian Christians from the UK, US and Africa to explore the dynamics of being gay and spiritual in the twenty-first century. Through...

Healing is needed only when we are sick, and is offered by an elite of specially trained experts. Michael Mitton challenges these and many other myths and misconceptions about healing and the healing ministry. He describes a very different understanding...

This book examines the extraordinary flowering of the English spirituality in the fourteenth and early fifiteen centuries, and shows its continuing power to nourish contempory life and prayer.Though each the writers discussed in this book each has a...

Liam Kelly takes each of the seven sacraments in turn - Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Reconciliation, Matrimony, Holy Orders and the Sacrament of the Sick - and explores their fascinating history, how each one came about and how they have developed...

The orthodox Byzantine tradition is still often undervalued and misunderstood in the Western churches. This books gives a vivid introduction to the leading figures, key themes and values of this living and ancient form of Christian spirituality. At the...

The headlines are filled with the politics of Islam, but there is another side to the world's fastest-growing religion. Sufism is the poetry and mysticism of Islam. This mystical movement from the early ninth century rejects worship motivated by the...

In the eyes of the world, Jesus was a fool. He did not abide by the rules of his day; the people he associated with were shunned by society; his Sermon on the Mount reads likea primer on being left behind, stepped on, and ignored. In order for us to...

Claiming Sacred GroundPilgrims and Politics at Glastonbury and SedonaAdrian J. IvakhivA study of people and politics at two New Age spiritual sites.In this richly textured account, Adrian Ivakhiv focuses on the activities of pilgrim-migrants to...

This book examines the importance of the topic of 'feeling tone' (vedanā) as it appears in early Buddhist texts and practice, and also within contemporary, secular, mindfulness-based interventions.The volume aims to highlight the crucial nature of the...

Janowitz sifts through the polemics to make sense of the daunting mosaic of religious belief and practice in Late Antiquity. Janowitz reveals how ritual practitioners held common assumptions about why their rituals worked and how to perform them. Icons...

Steven Rozenski reopens old discussions and addresses new ones concerning late medieval devotional texts, particularly those showing continental and German influences.For many, Martin Luther's translation of the Bible into German has come to define the...

How to Discover your Personnal Mission invites you on an adventure to discover your personalmission. In this user-friendly book, best selling author John Monbourquette will lead you throug a three-stage process: learning to let go of the past; deepening...

An introduction to the Catholic way of life including content on holiness and discipleship, love and marriage, and peace and justice.

Philip Sheldrake believes we cannot separate the Doctrine of God from our own personal faith and spiritual experience. He argues that we must bridge the divide between love and knowledge in our approach to God. To make discussion of the relationship...

In this wise and humane book, Eva Heymann reflects on her surprising and unlikely journey from Nazi Germany as Jewish refugee to becoming a Roman Catholic Sister in England. In her epilogue she writes, 'My roots are deep in eternity, I grow beyond myself...

Bridging the gap between romanticised and simplistic apporaches to Celtic spirituality and the discoveries of modern hostorians this book will appeal to general readers and students alike.

St. Birgitta of Sweden (1303-1373, canonized 1391) was one of the most charismatic and influential female visionaries of the later Middle Ages. Altogether, she received some 700 revelations, dealing with subjects ranging from meditations on the human...

This guidebook assists you to learn about and explore Dreamosophy - literally, the wisdomof dreaming. Wisdom differs from information and knowledge in that wisdom is based in andemerges from experience and tradition. Although many have tried to define...

Initially, all great truths are rejected. This can be seen as our religion-based society shifts to embrace spirituality. Unfortunately, this process can leave families, friends, and individuals floundering in its wake.So it was with me as turmoil erupted...

This mythic memoir is about Sam's midlife transformation, beginning with the painful death of his sixteen-year marriage. A month after separating from his wife, he feels "the impulse to jump" to his death from a five-story building. But instead of...

How do you live a life of harmony, freedom, and alignment? Uncover 90 daily passages of insight and inspiration that will always be with you.Do you want to be inspired daily? Do you feel like you're living in different worlds sometimes? In each moment we...

Have you ever felt unworthy of love or paralyzed by self-hatred and shame? Many times we assume God is absent when we find ourselves in deep sh*t; not realizing that God is knee deep in it with us. We are constantly trying to divorce spirituality from...

It's time to beat on the enemy who has been beating on you! Are you tired and frustrated by the delays and setbacks in your life caused by the hands of the enemy and are ready to do something about it? Satan and his cohorts have been waging war against...

A first English translation of Die Wiedergeburt, das innere wahrhaftige Leben, oder wie wird der Mensch selig? - first published in German 1857 and attributed to Karl Kolb - and better known as the Buchstabenbuch. It describes and gives the Biblical...

Compelling and clear sighted, this book presents new research using both archaeological and literary sources and provides an in-depth investigation into 'ancient magic' practices from curses to exorcism in antique Syria and Palestine.

This is the first book to explore the scope for reading Shakespeare spiritually in the light of contemporary theory and current world events.

Digital Existence: Ontology, Ethics and Transcendence in Digital Culture advances debates on digital culture and digital religion in two complementary ways. First, by focalizing the themes 'ontology,' 'ethics' and 'transcendence,' it builds on insights...

By exploring the key areas of both the empirical and theoretical study of religious and spiritual experience, the Studyguide will serve as an accessible and nonpartisan guide to enable its readers to explore the range of challenging data, debates,...