Spirituality and the Good Life
Philosophical Approaches
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- Editor: David McPherson, Creighton University, Omaha
- Date Published: December 2019
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107589681
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This book presents a broad philosophical study of the nature of spirituality and its relationship to human well-being, addressing an area of contemporary philosophy that has been largely underexplored. David McPherson brings together a team of scholars to examine the importance of specific spiritual practices (including prayer, contemplation, and ritual observance) and spiritually informed virtues (such as piety, humility, and existential gratitude) for 'the good life'. This volume also considers and exemplifies how philosophy itself, when undertaken as a humanistic rather than scientistic enterprise, can be a spiritual exercise and part of a spiritual way of life. Clarifying key concepts, and engaging with major religious traditions such as Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Confucianism, this book will appeal to students and scholars from various disciplines, including theology, sociology, and psychology, as well as to philosophers, ethicists, and other readers who are interested in modern spiritual life.
Read more- Addresses the underexplored topic of the philosophical study of the relationship between spirituality and human wellbeing, clarifying these concepts and their interaction with religion
- Engages with issues ranging from spiritual practices and religious traditions to virtue ethics and humanistic versus scientistic philosophy
- Meets the growing interest in the topic of spirituality in disciplines such as theology, religious studies, sociology, and psychology
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'… the combination of theoretically and practically focused essays creates a rich and productive hermeneutic tension for the reader. Some chapters invite the thought that spirituality aims to draw us into religious identities in which fledgling spiritual yearnings are trained and fulfilled by very specific types of communal belonging. Others invite us to wonder whether religious identities aim at spiritual transformation, providing a workshop of time-tested communal and individual practices that are knit together by historical and doctrinal identification, but find their deepest fulfillment in transformed adherents working together toward authenticity and justice in the world. There are different senses, perhaps, in which both insights are wise and potentially transformative, especially when held in tension.' Matthew C. Halteman, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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17th Oct 2024 by UName-610381
Thanks to the way how succeeds to present the relationship between spirituality and good life from an inter-confessional and inter-disciplinary way, the book coordinated by David MacPherson is not only an interesting work that can be useful both to theologians, philosophers, historians or philologists, but also an useful tool for one who wants to find more about these topics and to have a holistic perspective on them. Iuliu-Marius Morariu, extract from Astra Salvensis journal, no. 14 (2019).
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- Date Published: December 2019
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107589681
- length: 247 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.38kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction David McPherson
1. Philosophy, religion, and spirituality John Cottingham
2. The problem of impiety Cora Diamond
3. The virtue of piety Robert C. Roberts
4. Homo religiosus: does spirituality have a place in neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics? David McPherson
5. Desire and the spiritual life Fiona Ellis
6. Between heaven and earth: sensory experience and the goods of the spiritual life Mark R. Wynn
7. The Jewish Sabbath as a spiritual practice Samuel Fleischacker
8. The power of the spoken word: prayer, invocation, and supplication in Islam Mukhtar H. Ali
9. Aristotelian friendship and Ignatian companionship Karen Stohr
10. Starting with compassion Richard White
11. Identifying with the Confucian heaven: immanent and transcendent Dao May Sim
12. Agnostic spirituality John Houston.
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