Quakers and Mysticism Comparative and Syncretic Approaches to Spirituality /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Kershner, Jon R. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Mysticism
• Θέματα: Spirituality.; United States-History.; Religion-Philosophy.; US History.; Philosophy of Religion.

This book examines the nearly 400-year tradition of Quaker engagements with mystical ideas and sources. It provides a fresh assessment of the way tradition and social context can shape a religious community while interplaying with historical and theological antecedents within the tradition. Quaker c...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1) Introduction: Quaker Engagements with Mysticism
• 2) "Meeting": The Mystical Legacy of George Fox
• 3) James Nayler and Jacob Boehme's The Way to Christ
• 4) How Ecology, Economics, and Ethics Brought Winstanley and Nitobe to Quakerism
• 5) Robert Barclay and Kabbala
• 6) Elizabeth Ashbridge and Spiritual Autobiography: The Old Awakened in the New
• 7) John Woolman's Christological Model of Discernment
• 8) Hannah Whitall Smith's Highway of Holiness
• 9) The Unifying Light of Allah: Ibn Tufail and Rufus Jones in Dialogue
• 10) Howard Thurman (1899-1981): Universalist Approaches to Buddhism and Quakerism
• 11) The Singing Mysticism: Kenyan Quakerism, the Case of Gideon W. H. Mweresa
• 12) Liberal Quakers and Buddhism
• 13) Conclusion.