Mysticism and Social Action
Author: Howard Thurman
Publisher: Gwasg y Bwthyn
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 70
ISBN-13: 9780953817238
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Howard Thurman
Publisher: Gwasg y Bwthyn
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 70
ISBN-13: 9780953817238
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Richard Boeke
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Published: 2015-09-11
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 1783017031
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With a foreword by Dr Howard Thurman's biographer Dr Luther E. Smith Jr this book contains the only surviving text of the Lawrence Lectures given by Dr Thurman at California's Berkeley Unitarian Church in 1978. As such, it is a unique record of the thinking of one of America's most celebrated African-American churchmen on the potential of religious experience and god-conscious living to transform society. Howard Thurman, as Dean of the Chapels at Howard University, and later at Boston University, was acclaimed by LIFE magasine as one of the 20th century's "e;Great Preachers"e; of America. His insights and teaching in a time of immense social upheaval influenced the lives of millions, including Martin Luther King, Jr. In the Lawrence Lecture reproduced in this book he insists that the most intense religious experience (the 'mysticism' of the title) can and should be the basis for involvement in social transformation.Also within the book is a biographical essay entitled 'The Temple above the Clouds' by the Rev Richard F Boeke, Minister of the First Unitarian Church at Berkeley 1968-1995. It was he who was instrumental in inviting Dr Thurman to deliver the Lawrence Lectures and who preserved the content of those lectures for eventual publication. His reminiscence of his ministry during those years of rapid change in social attitudes provides both a fascinating and highly personal account in itself and also an informative background to the issues addressed by Dr Thurman.
Author: Alton Brooks Pollard
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Academics and activists alike have long dismissed mysticism as an «otherworldly» and escapist form of religion. Alton B. Pollard III, in a ground breaking study of the noted African-American mystic, Howard Thurman, presents an analysis of religious experience that challenges prevailing interpretations of mysticism and social change. Drawing on perspectives from sociology, phenomenology, and history, the author examines the meaning of mystical religion for the «underside» of contemporary American society. What he uncovers is significant: an activist form of mysticism, compelled by the dictates of spiritual experience, that defies social conventions and engenders social change.
Author: Janet K. Ruffing
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2001-02-01
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780815628774
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Where do Mysticism and and political action meet? How does faith empower its adherents to resist oppression? What are the origins of authentic contemporary mysticism? From the thirteenth-century Franciscan movement to African American mystics, this wide-ranging volume of essays considers exemplars of Christian mysticism (including Teresa of Avila, Ignatius of Loyola, the Quakers, and the Society of Friends) whose practices and influence brought about social change. Linking major conceptual issues and social theory, the essays examine the historical impact of mysticism in contemporary life and argue for a hermeneutical approach to mysticism in its historical context. The contributors look at how mystical empowerment can serve as a catalyst for expressing compassion in acts of justice and long-term social change. We learn how Sojourner Truth and Rebecca Cox Jackson, driven by mystical experiences to take up lives of preaching, faced the same misogynistic religious environments as did women mystics throughout history, which has submerged this key area of women’s experience. The final two essays describe the development of socially engaged Buddhism in Asia and America and the mystical roots of deep ecology.
Author: Susan Rakoczy, IHM
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 2017-01-27
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1587685833
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Richard H. Jones
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780739107843
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Mysticism and Morality author Richard Jones explores an often neglected question of religious ethics: Is mysticism moral? Through a discussion of several religious traditions--including Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Tantrism, Daoism, and Christianity--Jones fills a major void in the scholarly literature by considering all relevant points pertaining to mysticism. Rather than looking at mysticism abstractly, the book focuses on such topics as ritual, practice, and the processes of mystical becoming. This work provides new perspectives for those interested in ethics and will prove essential to anyone interested in comparative philosophy and cross-cultural studies of religion.
Author: Donna Schaper
Publisher: Augsburg Books
Published: 2009-09-21
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 1451407033
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Howard Thurman was an influential American author, philosopher, theologian, educator, and civil rights leader. Strongly influenced by his grandmother, a former slave, who raised him and a Quaker mystic under whom he studied, Thurman adopted a philosophy of activism rooted in faith, guided by spirit, and maintained in peace. Editor Donna Schaper selects forty inspiring passages from the works of this spiritual advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to accompany readers on their own spiritual journeys. Ideal for traveling through the seasons of Advent and Lent.
Author: Epperly, Bruce G.
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2020-12-16
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 1608338533
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Portrays the lives and experiences of twelve mystical activists, exploring their worldview and spirituality and their relationship to social transformation"--
Author: Alton Brooks Pollard
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Academics and activists alike have long dismissed mysticism as an «otherworldly» and escapist form of religion. Alton B. Pollard III, in a ground breaking study of the noted African-American mystic, Howard Thurman, presents an analysis of religious experience that challenges prevailing interpretations of mysticism and social change. Drawing on perspectives from sociology, phenomenology, and history, the author examines the meaning of mystical religion for the «underside» of contemporary American society. What he uncovers is significant: an activist form of mysticism, compelled by the dictates of spiritual experience, that defies social conventions and engenders social change.
Author: Matthew T. Lee
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-01-10
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 0199931887
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawing on a random survey of 1,200 men and women across the United States, this book sheds new light on how Americans wake up to the reality of divine love and how that transformative experience expresses itself in concrete acts of benevolence.