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Author : Ariel Glucklich
Release : 2020-01-09
Genre : Psychology
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 428/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Joy of Religion by : Ariel Glucklich
Download or read book The Joy of Religion written by Ariel Glucklich. This book was released on 2020-01-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a psychological and historical approach, the book describes the ways that religions deepen and prolong feelings of wellbeing.
Author : Ariel Glucklich
Release : 2020-01-09
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 163/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Joy of Religion by : Ariel Glucklich
Download or read book The Joy of Religion written by Ariel Glucklich. This book was released on 2020-01-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All religions describe spiritual experience as pleasant, and the goal of the religious pursuit as profoundly joyful. But many religions also condemn sensory pleasures and the desire for objects of pleasure. In this book, Ariel Glucklich resolves this apparent contradiction by showing how religious practices that instill self-control and discipline transform one type of pleasure into the pleasures of mastery and play. Using historical data and psychological analysis, he details how the rituals, mystical practices, moral teachings, and sacred texts of the world's religions act as psychological instruments that induce well-being. Glucklich also shows that in promoting joy and pleasure, religion also strengthens social bonds and enhances an individual's pursuit of meaning.
Author : Phan, Peter C.
Release : 2017-02-16
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 905/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Joy of Religious Pluralism by : Phan, Peter C.
Download or read book The Joy of Religious Pluralism written by Phan, Peter C.. This book was released on 2017-02-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Occhiogrosso
Release : 2005
Genre : Religions
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Book Rating : 925/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Joy of Sects by : Peter Occhiogrosso
Download or read book The Joy of Sects written by Peter Occhiogrosso. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative histories of the six great religious traditions of East and West, along with brief sections on the scriptures, places of worship, and terminologies, as well as the numerous denominations, orders, and schools that make up world religion.
Author : Ariel Glucklich
Release : 2003-10-30
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 492/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sacred Pain by : Ariel Glucklich
Download or read book Sacred Pain written by Ariel Glucklich. This book was released on 2003-10-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why would anyone seek out the very experience the rest of us most wish to avoid? Why would religious worshipers flog or crucify themselves, sleep on spikes, hang suspended by their flesh, or walk for miles through scorching deserts with bare and bloodied feet? In this insightful new book, Ariel Glucklich argues that the experience of ritual pain, far from being a form of a madness or superstition, contains a hidden rationality and can bring about a profound transformation of the consciousness and identity of the spiritual seeker. Steering a course between purely cultural and purely biological explanations, Glucklich approaches sacred pain from the perspective of the practitioner to fully examine the psychological and spiritual effects of self-hurting. He discusses the scientific understanding of pain, drawing on research in fields such as neuropsychology and neurology. He also ranges over a broad spectrum of historical and cultural contexts, showing the many ways mystics, saints, pilgrims, mourners, shamans, Taoists, Muslims, Hindus, Native Americans, and indeed members of virtually every religion have used pain to achieve a greater identification with God. He examines how pain has served as a punishment for sin, a cure for disease, a weapon against the body and its desires, or a means by which the ego may be transcended and spiritual sickness healed. "When pain transgresses the limits," the Muslim mystic Mizra Asadullah Ghalib is quoted as saying, "it becomes medicine." Based on extensive research and written with both empathy and critical insight, Sacred Pain explores the uncharted inner terrain of self-hurting and reveals how meaningful suffering has been used to heal the human spirit.
