Meditation in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam : cultural histories

Meditation in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam : cultural histories / edited by Halvor Eifring.

"Meditative practices have flourished in widely different parts of Eurasia, yet historical research on such practices is limited. Research to date has focused on contexts rather than actual practices, and within individual traditions. For the first time in one volume, the meditative practices o...

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Other Authors: Eifring, Halvor (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
Subjects:
Meditation > Christianity.
Meditation > Judaism.
Meditation > Islam.
History of religion.
Spirituality & religious experience.
Comparative religion.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Inspiration & Personal Growth.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Spirituality > General.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
RELIGION > Devotional.
RELIGION > Spirituality.
Meditation > Islam
Meditation > Christianity
Meditation > Judaism
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Table of Contents:
  • Meditation in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: technical aspects of devotional practices / Halvor Eifring
  • Ancient Hebrew meditative recitation / Terje Stordalen
  • Mystics without minds? Body and soul in Merkavah mysticism / Michael D. Swartz
  • Meditative prayer in Moshe Cordovero's Kabbalah / Alan Brill
  • Spiritual friendship as contemplative practice in Kabbalah and Hasidism / Lawrence Fine
  • Melétē in early Christian ascetic texts / Per Rönnegård
  • The early Jesus prayer and meditation in Greco-Roman philosophy / Henrik Rydell Johnsén
  • Meditation in the East Syrian tradition / Serafim Seppälä
  • The pathless path of prayer: is there a meditation method in Meister Eckhart? / Jeffrey Cooper
  • Teresa of Avila's evolving practices of 'representing' Christ in prayer / Mary Frohlich
  • Jesuit ekphrastic meditation: Louis Richeome's Painting in the Mind / Judi Loach
  • Imageless prayer and imagistic meditation in Orthodox Christianity / Augustine Casiday
  • Sufi dhikr between meditation and prayer / Jamal J. Elias
  • Movement and stillness: the practice of Sufi dhikr in fourteenth-century Central Asia / Shahzad Bashir
  • Music and remembrance as meditation: samāʻ in the Indus Valley / Michel Boivin
  • The natural science of meditation: a 'black box' perspective? / Svend Davanger.

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