The Philosophy of Spirituality

Analytic, Continental and Multicultural Approaches to a New Field of Philosophy
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-37629-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 322, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 490 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Philosophy and Religion

The essays in The Philosophy of Spirituality explore a new field in philosophy. Until recently, most philosophers in the analytic and continental Western traditions treated spirituality as a religious concept. Any non-religious spirituality tended to be neglected or dismissed as irremediably vague. Here, from various philosophical and cultural perspectives, it is addressed as a subject of independent interest.

This is a philosophical response to increasing numbers of spiritual but not religious people inhabiting secular societies and the heightened interaction between a multitude of spiritual traditions in a globalized age. A provocative array of approaches (African, Indigenous, Indian, Stoic, and Sufic perspectives, as well as Western analytic and continental views) offer fresh insights, many articulated by emerging voices.

Contributors are Mariapaola Bergomi, Moses Biney, Christopher Braddock, Drew Chastain, Kerem Eksen, Nikolay Milkov, Roderick Nicholls, Jerry Piven, Heather Salazar, Eric Steinhart, Richard White, Mark Wynn and Eric Yang.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Salazar, Heather

Nicholls, Roderick

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Roderick Nicholls and Heather Salazar

Part 1: Understanding Spirituality: Introduction

1 Renewing the Senses: Conversion Experience and the Phenomenology of the Spiritual Life

Mark Wynn

2 Spiritual Experience and Imagination

Eric Yang

3 Sinister and Sublime Aspects of Spirituality

Jerry Piven

Part 2: Spirituality across Traditions: Introduction

4 Is Yogic Enlightenment Dependent upon God?

Heather Salazar

5 Spirituality from the Margins: West African Spirituality and Aesthetics

Moses Biney

6 Non-religious Spirituality in the Greek Age of Anxiety

Mariapaola Bergomi

7 Becoming a Hollow Bone: Lakota Respect for the Sacred

Drew Chastain

8 Silence will Change the World: Kierkegaard, Derrida and Islamic Sufism

Christopher Braddock

Part 3: Critical Perspectives and Re-inventions of Spirituality

9 Self-Care and Amor Fati as a Spiritual Ideal

Roderick Nicholls

10 Bertrand Russell’s Religion without God

Nikolay Milkov

11 Truth in Practice: Foucault’s Procedural Approach to Spirituality

Kerem Eksen

12 Spirit, Soul and Self-Overcoming: A Post-Jungian View

Richard White

13 Spiritual Naturalism

Eric Steinhart

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Heather Salazar, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara. Associate Professor of Philosophy at Western New England University, USA. Publications include: “Descartes’ and Patanjali’s Conceptions of Self” (Journal of Indian Philosophy, 2014); “Kantian Business Ethics” (Business In Ethical Focus, Broadview, 2008/2017).

Roderick Nicholls, Ph.D. Queen’s University. Associate Professor of Philosophy at Cape Breton University, Canada. Publications range from: “Ghosts, God & the Problem of Dirty Hands” (Ars Disputandi, 2004) to “The Fictionality of Theatrical Performance” (Fiction and Art, Bloomsbury Academic, 2015).