Tag: Spirituality

Free Download Sheri D. Kling, "A Process Spirituality: Christian and Transreligious Resources for Transformation"
English | ISBN: 1793630429 | 2020 | 296 pages | EPUB, PDF | 570 KB + 7 MB
American culture is in a state of critical fragmentation. The author argues that we will solve neither the ecological crisis nor our social estrangement from each until we transform our perception of life as embodied and interconnected, and rediscover what is sacred through transformative lived experiences of wholeness. Using an embodied theological framework supported by comparative, hermeneutical, and constructive methodologies, A Process Spirituality synthesizes theoretical, empirical, and practical resources to construct a hopeful and holistic understanding of God, the world, and the self. Interweaving Alfred North Whitehead’s vision of a relational cosmos with Carl Gustav Jung’s integrated, relational psyche, and a powerful spiritual praxis of dream work creates a generative matrix through which to perceive a God-world reality characterized by value, relationality, and transformation in which individuals matter, belong, and can experience positive change. Such a Christian and transreligious vision of hope offers individuals the possibility and capacity to move from a state of fragmentation to one of psycho-spiritual wholeness and flourishing.

Free Download Spirituality and Mental Health Across Cultures by Alexander Moreira-Almeida, Bruno Paz Mosqueiro, Dinesh Bhugra
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0198846835 | 496 Pages | PDF | 42.4 MB
Religiosity and spirituality (R/S) represent a very important factor of daily life for many individuals across different cultures and contexts.

Free Download Eline Kieft, "Dancing in the Muddy Temple: A Moving Spirituality of Land and Body "
English | ISBN: 0739189026 | 2022 | 212 pages | EPUB, PDF | 482 KB + 4 MB
In this book, Eline Kieft creates an embodied spirituality that is based in improvised movement and embedded in the land. Weaving between theory and practice, this innovative work explores fundamental interconnections between self, surroundings, and the sacred.

Free Download Spirituality & Health – January-February 2024
English | 86 pages | True PDF | 30.7 MB

Free Download Barbara Alice Mann, "The Woman Who Married the Bear: The Spirituality of the Ancient Foremothers"
English | ISBN: 0197655424 | 2023 | 296 pages | EPUB, PDF | 24 MB + 30 MB

Free Download Jesus as Mother: Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages (Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies) by Caroline Walker Bynum
English | January 1, 1982 | ISBN: 0520041941 | True EPUB/PDF | 280 pages | 4.98/20.4 MB
"During the high Middle Ages many of the devout really did address Jesus as mother and depict their devotion to him in feminine imagery. And not all of these were women . . . . Don’t expect a whole volume on this one topic, however . . . . this book contains four other rich and erudite essays on medieval spirituality: one concerning similarities and differences between clerical and monastic spirituality in the 12th century, another on the Cistercian concept of community, a third devoted to the much-debated question of whether the 12th century anticipated the Renaissance in the discovery of the individual, and a fourth explaining the mystical piety of the nuns of Helfta … in the context of the burgeoning clericalization of the church."-Christian Century

Free Download Mental Health, Spirituality, and Religion in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age By Albrecht Classen (editor)
2014 | 744 Pages | ISBN: 311036087X | EPUB | 5 MB
This volume continues the critical exploration of fundamental issues in the medieval and early modern world, here concerning mental health, spirituality, melancholy, mystical visions, medicine, and well-being. The contributors, who originally had presented their research at a symposium at The University of Arizona in May 2013, explore a wide range of approaches and materials pertinent to these issues, taking us from the early Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, capping the volume with some reflections on the relevance of religion today. Lapidary sciences matter here as much as medical-psychological research, combined with literary and art-historical approaches. The premodern understanding of mental health is not taken as a miraculous panacea for modern problems, but the contributors suggest that medieval and early modern writers, scientists, and artists commanded a considerable amount of arcane, sometimes curious and speculative, knowledge that promises to be of value and relevance even for us today, once again. Modern palliative medicine finds, for instance, intriguing parallels in medieval word magic, and the mystical perspectives encapsulated highly productive alternative perceptions of the macrocosm and microcosm that promise to be insightful and important also for the post-modern world.

Free Download J. Matthew Ashley, "Renewing Theology: Ignatian Spirituality and Karl Rahner, Ignacio Ellacuría, and Pope Francis"
English | ISBN: 0268203172 | 2022 | 432 pages | EPUB | 573 KB

Free Download The Spirituality of Dreaming: Unlocking the Wisdom of Our Sleeping Selves by Kelly Bulkeley
English | December 5th, 2023 | ISBN: 1506483143 | 244 pages | True EPUB | 2.66 MB
Enhance your dreaming with groundbreaking research and wisdom from vivid dreamers throughout history, sacred texts, and the present day.

Free Download Kris H.K Chong, "Transcendence and Spirituality in Chinese Cinema: A Theological Exploration "
English | ISBN: 0367435748 | 2020 | 160 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book provides a framework by which a global audience might think theologically about contemporary films produced in mainland China by Chinese directors. Up to this point the academic discipline of Christian theology and film has focussed predominantly on Western cinema, and as a result, has missed out the potential insights offered by Chinese spirituality on film.