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

Contributor(s): Eifring, Halvor [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2015Edition: Paperback editionDescription: vi, 291 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781474234634; 1474234631Subject(s): Meditation | Meditation -- Christianity | Meditation -- Judaism | Islamic meditationsBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-280) and index.
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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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 West BV4813 .M415 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903394803

Originally published: 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-280) and index.

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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