Perceiving the Divine through the Human Body Mystical Sensuality
by Cattoi, Thomas; McDaniel, JuneFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2011-10-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
Cattoi and McDaniel present a selection of articles on the role of the body and the spiritual senses--our transfigured channels of sensory perceptions--in the context of spiritual practice. The volume investigates this theme across a variety of different religious traditions, starting from early and medieval Christianity, addressing a number of Eastern traditions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Daoism, and finally touching on some modern forms of spirituality and psychotherapy.
Author Biography
Thomas Cattoi is an assistant professor of Christology and Cultures at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. June McDaniel is a professor of the History of Religions at the College of Charleston.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Spiritual Body, Spiritual Senses: Past and Present--June McDaniel * Part I: Spiritual senses and deified bodies * A Hindu Monk’s Appreciation of Eastern Orthodoxy’s Jesus Prayer: The “Inner Senses” of Hearing, Seeing and Feeling in Comparative Perspective--Joseph Molleur * Indo-Tibetan Tantrism as “Spirit Marriage”--Stuart Ray Sarbacker * Experiencing the Single Savior: Divinizing the Body and the Senses in Tantric Buddhist Meditation--David Gray * The Patristic Roots of John Smith’s ‘True Way or Method of Attaining to Divine Knowledge’--Derek Michaud * Part II: Ascetic practice and embodied transcendence * The Daoist Mystical Body--Louis Komjathy * Daoist Mysticism: Embodiment, ‘Eudaimonia’, and Flow--Laura Weed * Liminality and Ambiguity: the Role of Bodily Suffering in the Mysticism of Christian the Astonishing, Charlotte Radler, Assistant Professor of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University * “The Body Gains its Share”: The Asceticism of Mechthild of Magdeburg--Michelle Voss Roberts * Part III: Embodied Spirituality and Modern Mysticism * Map of Consciousness: New Paradigm for Mysticism and Healing--Fran Grace * The Diamond Approach: Towards an Embodied Spirituality for the 21st century--Ann Gleig * Reading Wisdom with Reich: Proverbs 8-9 as Interpreted through the Psychotherapy of Wilhelm Reich--Neil Douglas-Klotz * Conclusion: The Virtues of Form--Thomas Cattoi
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