American Spiritualities: A ReaderCatherine L. Albanese Indiana University Press, 2001 - 530 This reader explores current interest in spirituality in the United States. It traces the concept and presence of spirituality in the nation's past and explains the strong attraction to spiritual themes in the present, with attention to questions of definition, historical usage, and connection to religion. Twenty-seven selections pursue the difference and diversity among Americans in terms of their spiritual styles, here understood as modes of experiential knowledge. Catherine L. Albanese has organized these selections to reflect four approaches to spirituality: knowing through the body, or ritual-based spiritualities; knowing through the heart, or evangelical and emotionally toned spiritualities; knowing through the will, or prophetic and social-action spiritualities; and knowing through the mind, or metaphysically oriented spiritualities. Taken together, these essays make the argument that the spiritual is human-made, essentially religious, and surely not the same at all American times and places. The anthology includes selections by Catherine L. Albanese, Janet and Robert Aldridge, Daniel Berrigan, Joseph Epes Brown, Charles W. Colson, Annie Dillard, Virgilio Elizondo, Tamar Frankiel, Emma Goldman, Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe, B. K. S. Iyengar, Curtis D. Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Chen Kung, Jerena Lee, Shirley MacLaine, Aimee Semple McPherson, Thomas Merton, Carry A. Nation, E. Burke Rochford, Jr., Jerry Rubin, Molly Rush, Starhawk, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Trine, Joachim Wach, B. Alan Wallace, Steven Wilhelm, and Dhyani Ywahoo. Catherine L. Albanese is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of the widely used textbook America: Religions and Religion, now in its third edition, and of numerous other articles and books, including Nature Religion in America: From the Algonkian Indians to the New Age. Albanese is a former president of the American Academy of Religion. 552 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, bibl., index |
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Introduction | 1 |
KNOWING THROUGH THE BODY | 11 |
THE PATH OF RITUAL | 19 |
The Ordinances of Public Worship | 56 |
Popular Religion as the Core of Cultural Identity Based on the Mexican | 95 |
Rhythms of Jewish Life | 112 |
The Sun Dance | 130 |
The Coven | 156 |
The Divine Call | 319 |
From Living My Life | 337 |
Letter from Birmingham Jail | 349 |
Testimonies | 363 |
The Path of METAPHYSICS | 385 |
Explorations in Metaphysical and New | 391 |
Fullness of LifeBodily Health and Vigor | 411 |
The Gift of Understanding and The Night of the Senses | 431 |
The Path of Feeling and EMOTION | 179 |
The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee | 203 |
Girlhood and Salvation and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit | 223 |
An Unforgettable Night | 244 |
est | 253 |
Devis Story | 261 |
THE PATH OF Prophecy and SOCIAL | 289 |
Civil Disobedience | 301 |
Seeing | 440 |
Four Applications of Mindfulness | 454 |
Renewing the Sacred Hoop | 464 |
The New Age and Rational Thought and A Rainbow of Expression | 481 |
The Tree and Its Parts | 498 |
Discourse on MindIntent and Chi | 504 |
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