... of the concepts of religion and spirituality that had emerged in Abrahamic traditions and the Western academy. It also mentions the author's fieldwork in West Africa and Aboriginal Australia, where he used their perspectives to critique prevailing paradigms in the academic study of religion. The chapter considers...

... and participant in the history of Christian life and spirituality. His inner life and external actions illuminate his own time and provide a context for ours. In addition to his sophisticated theology, his moving sermons, and his influence among kings and popes, Bernard can plausibly be considered the first...

... form of Christian spirituality. Tolstoy's only sustained attempt in fiction at dramatizing the principles of this new vision and its negative Christology is his final novel, Resurrection. At the center of Tolstoy's social and Christological critique in the novel is his preoccupation...

...Since its rediscovery in 1934, the fifteenth-century Book of Margery Kempe has become a canonical text for students of medieval Christian mysticism and spirituality. Its author was a fifteenth-century English laywoman who, after the birth of her first child, experienced vivid...

... on the virtues, the Ten Commandments, and the seven deadly sins, as well as a treatise on penance, and another on contemplation. It was extremely influential both in its original form and over the course of a long afterlife, and comprises a key to understanding spirituality and religious reform in the context...

... community. As the vita repeatedly argues, Pier's extraordinary spiritual rigor produced the model of good communal citizenship. But one also sees in this vita an expanded understanding of the content and role of lay charisma. At the same time that the vita...

...The chapter reinforces the role of positive earth emotions by putting them all within the context of a secular land or earth 'spirituality'. Negative Earth emotions can only manifest themselves if humans have a fundamental attachment to place. The chapter forwards the concept of the 'Ghedeist...

... recognition of the value of women's spirituality in strengthening and promoting the pastoral mission of Tridentine reform. Moreover, these diocesan efforts to include and work with the seroras in their reform program was deliberate and formalized, as evidenced by the copious documentary record produced...

...This introductory chapter reflects on the natural and inevitable conflict between science and spirituality, which takes on acute form when the subject is the natural world. Can the earth be wholly understood as a set of elements configured by physical laws, and all life forms reduced definitively...

...This epilogue reflects on what might happen if we brought the sciences together with poetry and spiritual texts, as if one could look through binoculars fitted with two completely different sets of lenses? Might it be possible to bring the qualities and elements of the Sierra into better focus...

... environmentalism Nature Rx programs stargazing yoga Center for Spirituality and Healing CSH Kreitzer Mary Jo University of Minnesota Wellbeing model Larson Jeannie Nature Heals Public Health Surveillance Well Being Scale Suzuki David gardening horticulture therapy Nature Based Therapeutic services...

... their schools to secular clergy and instructed them on matters of faith, as well as instructing the laity through sermons. By establishing a network of schools, Franciscans were eventually successful in spreading the conviction that learning was important in Christian spirituality. Francis of Assisi OFM Robert...

...This chapter examines the development of eremitical mysticism in the British Isles. Focusing on the case of Peter Abelard (1079–1142), it considers the link between eroticism and mysticism. After providing a background on the development of anchoritic spirituality up to the time of the Cistercians...

...This chapter examines the mystical discourse in A Talking of the Love of God, a unique prose text in Vernon that prefaces Ancrene Wisse, with particular emphasis on the distinction between “female” and “male” spirituality. Considered by scholars to be typical...

... life in medieval England and its connection to spirituality, along with spiritual freedom as the primary motivation for the hermits and anchorites to retreat from contemporary society. Finally, it considers the element of sweetness in relation to “singular” English piety. Ancrene Wisse Bernard...

...This chapter examines how millennial Latin Christians attempted to approach their God through a specifially Christian theological perspective. It begins by discussing the contemplative spirituality of Abbot John of Fécamp, who declares in Confessio Theologica: “There are many types...

...This chapter reflects on how memory provides “intimations of immortality” for loved ones still alive to remember and suggests that the artist's secular sphere of spirituality occurs at the intersection of time and timelessness. Henry Scott Holland (1847–1918), who was Regius Professor of Divinity...

... to the nunneries, they did so with the double aim of reforming these institutions along monastic lines and institutionalizing the ideal of apostolic charity as outlined in the conciliar degrees. This practical connection had a deep spiritual significance based on the complex and often competing religious meanings...

...This chapter addresses another pair of seeming opposites — New Age spirituality and Christian evangelicalism — in order to reveal their shared embrace of the spiritual possibilities on offer in the free market. The chapter considers the rising belief in the end times alongside the emergence...

..., a more complex view of Richard's career, spirituality, and motivations enables us to better evaluate his achievements as church leader and reformer. The book analyzes various accounts of Richard's life, contemporary sources that are revealing of his worldview and self-conception, and the evidence...