Sourcebook of the World's Religions: An Interfaith Guide to Religion and SpiritualityJoel Beversluis New World Library, 8 feb. 2011 - 420 pagini Now in its third edition, this is the most comprehensive work available on the rich variety of paths available to today's spiritual seekers. More than an academic reference, it explores how religions can collaborate to help the world. Essays exploring the realm of building an interfaith community add to the book's detailed portraits of the major religious traditions. The Sourcebook also contains essays on spiritual practices as diverse as theosophy, wicca, and indigenous religions. This revised edition of the Sourcebook offers an unparalleled look at where spirituality is headed in the coming millennium. |
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... reality shall we choose? It's clear that religious and spiritual communities do help create, and often lead the march toward, a culture of peace and justice when they draw on their highest ideals. Likewise, their wisdom and organizing ...
... reality shall we choose? It's clear that religious and spiritual communities do help create, and often lead the march toward, a culture of peace and justice when they draw on their highest ideals. Likewise, their wisdom and organizing ...
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... reality is interrelated like a family. This same relational metaphysics is what undergirds the life of the individual in community. Individual in Community J. S. Mbiti captures this relational metaphysics succinctly in the dictum: “I am ...
... reality is interrelated like a family. This same relational metaphysics is what undergirds the life of the individual in community. Individual in Community J. S. Mbiti captures this relational metaphysics succinctly in the dictum: “I am ...
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... reality of suffering (dukha) the truth of suffering, and called this action—conjoined with afflicting elements (karma and klesa)—the truth of the cause of suffering. These two truths constitute the first of the Four Noble Truths, which ...
... reality of suffering (dukha) the truth of suffering, and called this action—conjoined with afflicting elements (karma and klesa)—the truth of the cause of suffering. These two truths constitute the first of the Four Noble Truths, which ...
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... reality of no-self, this nescience may be stopped, and thereby the whole chain of causation leading to unsatisfactory birth is brought to an end. In this way the twelvefold causal linkage is not only a theory of the genesis of a ...
... reality of no-self, this nescience may be stopped, and thereby the whole chain of causation leading to unsatisfactory birth is brought to an end. In this way the twelvefold causal linkage is not only a theory of the genesis of a ...
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... reality. According to the texts the Zen that Bodhidharma taught and practiced can be summed up as A special transmission outside the scriptures; no dependence upon words and letters; directly pointing at one's own nature; attaining ...
... reality. According to the texts the Zen that Bodhidharma taught and practiced can be summed up as A special transmission outside the scriptures; no dependence upon words and letters; directly pointing at one's own nature; attaining ...
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Sourcebook of the World's Religions: An Interfaith Guide to Religion and ... Joel Diederik Beversluis Previzualizare limitată - 2000 |
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