Sensing Sacred Texts

Sensing Sacred Texts
Author: James Washington Watts
Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781781795767

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All the human senses become engaged in ritualizing sacred texts. These essays focus especially on ritualizing the iconic dimension of texts through the senses of sight, touch, kiss, and taste, both directly and in the imagination. Ritualized display of books engages the sense of sight very differently than does reading. Touching gets associated with reading scriptures, but touching also enables using the scripture as an amulet. Eating and consuming texts is a ubiquitous analogy for internalizing the contents of texts by reading and memorization. The idea of textual consumption reflects a widespread tendency to equate humans and written texts by their interiority and exteriority: books and people both have material bodies, yet both seem to contain immaterial ideas. Books thus physically incarnate cultural and religious values, doctrines, beliefs, and ideas. These essays bring theories of comparative scriptures and affect theory to bear on the topic as well as rich ethnographic descriptions of scriptural practices with Jewish, Sikh, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist and modern art and historical accounts of changing practices with sacred texts in ancient and medieval China and Korea, and in ancient Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cultures.

Sensing Sacred

Sensing Sacred
Author: Jennifer Baldwin
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2016-08-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1498531245

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Sensing Sacred is an edited volume that explores the critical intersection of “religion” and “body” through the religious lens of practical theology, with an emphasis on sensation as the embodied means in which human beings know themselves, others, and the divine in the world. The manuscript argues that all human interaction and practice, including religious praxis, engages “body” through at least one of the human senses (touch, smell, hearing, taste, sight, kinestics/proprioception). Unfortunately, body—and, more specifically and ironically, sensation—is eclipsed in contemporary academic scholarship that is inherently bent toward the realm of theory and ideas. This is unfortunate because it neglects bodies, physical or communal, as the repository and generator of culturally conditioned ideas and theory. It is ironic because all knowledge transmission minimally requires several senses including sight, touch, and hearing. Sensing Sacred is organized into two parts. The first section devotes a chapter to each human sense as an avenue of accessing religious experience; while the second section explores religious practices as they specifically focus on one or more senses. The overarching aim of the volume is to explicitly highlight each sense and utilize the theoretical lenses of practical theology to bring to vivid life the connections between essential sensation and religious thinking and practice.

Sacred Texts of the World

Sacred Texts of the World
Author: Ninian Smart
Publisher: Herder & Herder
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1982
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

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A well-annotated, impartial anthology of key texts from world religions--including the primitive, ancient, and esoteric alongside the living faiths of both Western and Eastern cultures... The excerpts are grouped by faiths and subclassified by type: sacred narratives, doctrines, rituals, institutional expressions, experience,and ethics...There are good bibliographies at the end of each.A.L.A. Booklist

Sensing God

Sensing God
Author: Joel Clarkson
Publisher: NavPress
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2021
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1641582081

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"Sensing God is a discovery of Jesus in all of the sensory points embedded into each of us. It shows how the holiest acts in our daily lives are often the simplest: reveling in the beauty of nature; listening to our favorite music; eating a nourishing meal with family. These are potentially heartbeats of a living faith, and when we learn to recognize and respond to God’s goodness in them, it draws us into redemptive participation with Him, the source of all beauty"--Amazon.com.

Sensing God Online

Sensing God Online
Author: Justin Bishop
Publisher: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Incorporated
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2021
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781641733205

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"During the pandemic, churches pivoted to online worship. Justin Bishop offers practical guidance and theological reflection to offer help to churches trying to establish and strengthen their digital presence"--

The Divine Library

The Divine Library
Author: Rufus C. Camphausen
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1992-06
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780892813513

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Succinctly describes 140 sacred texts, dating from the earliest times to the present, in relation to the cultures that created them.

Sacred Texts of the World

Sacred Texts of the World
Author: Richard D. Hecht
Publisher:
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1993
Genre: Religious literature
ISBN:

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The Science of the Mind

The Science of the Mind
Author: Ernest Holmes
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2007-06-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1602066868

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First published in 1926, this book is the most important writing from preacher Ernest Shurtleff Holmes. In it, he strives to introduce man to himself, as he truly is. Man is part of the Infinite Spirit, as is all of the visible and invisible in existence. And sharing in the creative power of the Infinite, man becomes able to make thought manifest, as is the case with illness. Holmes explains how the mind controls illness in the body and how changing one's mental state can be healing. In this volume, Holmes gives readers a complete course in Mental Science, so that they may come to understand the power and potential that exists within. Anyone looking for a new way to understand the world and their place in it will find this an empowering read.

Hearing Voices, Demonic and Divine

Hearing Voices, Demonic and Divine
Author: Christopher C. H. Cook
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2018-12-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0429750943

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The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781472453983, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivative 4.0 license. Experiences of hearing the voice of God (or angels, demons, or other spiritual beings) have generally been understood either as religious experiences or else as a feature of mental illness. Some critics of traditional religious faith have dismissed the visions and voices attributed to biblical characters and saints as evidence of mental disorder. However, it is now known that many ordinary people, with no other evidence of mental disorder, also hear voices and that these voices not infrequently include spiritual or religious content. Psychological and interdisciplinary research has shed a revealing light on these experiences in recent years, so that we now know much more about the phenomenon of "hearing voices" than ever before. The present work considers biblical, historical, and scientific accounts of spiritual and mystical experiences of voice hearing in the Christian tradition in order to explore how some voices may be understood theologically as revelatory. It is proposed that in the incarnation, Christian faith finds both an understanding of what it is to be fully human (a theological anthropology), and God’s perfect self-disclosure (revelation). Within such an understanding, revelatory voices represent a key point of interpersonal encounter between human beings and God.

The Secret Science Behind Miracles

The Secret Science Behind Miracles
Author: Max Freedom Long
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2022-01-04
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN:

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This book deals with the discovery of an ancient and secret system of workable magic, which, if we can learn to use it as did the native magicians of Polynesia and North Africa, bids fair to change the world … Contents: The Discovery That May Change the World Fire-Walking as an Introduction to Magic The Incredible Force Used in Magic, Where It Comes From, and Some of Its Uses The Two Souls of Man and the Proofs That There Are Two Instead of One The Kahuna System and the Three "Souls" or Spirits of Man, Each Using Its Own Voltage of Vital Force. These Spirits in Union and in Separation Taking The Measure of the Third Element in Magic, That of the Invisible Substance Through Which Consciousness Acts by Means of Force Psychometry, Crystal Gazing, Visions of the Past, Visions of the Future, Etc., Explained by the Ancient Lore of the Kahunas Mind Reading, Clairvoyance, Vision, Prevision, Crystal Gazing, and All of the Psychometrically Related Phenomena, as Explained in Terms of the Ten Elements of the Ancient Huna System The Significance of Seeing into the Future in the Psychometric Phenomena and in Dreams The Easy Way to Dream into the Future Instant Healing Through the High Self. The Proofs and Methods Raising the Dead, Permanently and Temporarily The Life-Giving Secrets of Lomilomi and Laying on of Hands Startling New and Different Ideas from the Kahunas Concerning the Nature of the Complex and Healing The Secret Kahuna Method of Treating the Complex How the Kahunas Fought the Horrid Things of Darkness The Secret Within the Secret The Secret Which Enabled the Kahunas to Perform the Miracle of Instant Healing The Magic of Rebuilding the Unwanted Future The High Self and the Healing in Psychic Science How The Kahunas Controlled Winds, Weather and the Sharks by Magic The Practical Use of the Magic of the Miracle