The Philosophy of Spirituality : Analytic, Continental and Multicultural Approaches to a New Field of Philosophy.
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Intro -- The Philosophy of Spirituality: Analytic, Continental and Multicultural Approaches to a New Field of Philosophy -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1: Understanding Spirituality -- 1 Understanding Spirituality -- 2 Renewing the Senses: Conversion Experience and the Phenomenology of the Spiritual Life -- 3 Spiritual Experience and Imagination -- 4 Sinister and Sublime Aspects of Spirituality -- Part 2: Spirituality across Traditions -- 5 Spirituality across Traditions -- 6 Is Yogic Enlightenment Dependent upon God? -- 7 Spirituality from the Margins: West African Spirituality and Aesthetics -- 8 Non-religious Spirituality in the Greek Age of Anxiety -- 9 Becoming a Hollow Bone: Lakota Respect for the Sacred -- 10 Silence will Change the World: Kierkegaard, Derrida and Islamic Sufism -- Part 3: Critical Perspectives and Re-inventions of Spirituality -- 11 Critical Perspectives and Re-Inventions of Spirituality -- 12 Care of Self and Amor Fati as a Spiritual Ideal -- 13 Bertrand Russell's Religion without God -- 14 Truth in Practice: Foucault's Procedural Approach to Spirituality -- 15 Spirit, Soul and Self-overcoming: a Post-Jungian View -- 16 Spiritual Naturalism -- Index.
The essays in The Philosophy of Spirituality address spirituality as a subject of philosophical interest independent of religion and respecting diverse spiritual traditions: African, atheist, Indigenous, Indian, Stoic, and Sufic perspectives, as well as Western analytic and continental views.
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Spirituality. Religion-Philosophy. Philosophy and religion.