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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 within Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Daoism.
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ChristianityTable of contents
- Cover
- Perceiving the Divine through the Human Body
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- The Mysticism Group of the American Academy of Religion
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: Spiritual Body, Spiritual Senses, Past and Present
- 1 A Hindu Monkās Appreciation of Eastern Orthodoxyās Jesus Prayer: The āInner Sensesā of Hearing, Seeing, and Feeling in Comparative Perspective
- 2 Indo-Tibetan Tantrism as Spirit Marriage
- 3 Experiencing the Single Savior: Divinizing the Body and the Senses in Tantric Buddhist Meditation
- 4 The Daoist Mystical Body
- 5 Daoist Mysticism: Embodiment, Eudaimonia, and Flow
- 6 Liminality and Ambiguity: Christina the Astonishing as Co-Redemptrix and Alternative Model of Authority
- 7 The Patristic Roots of John Smithās True Way or Method of Attaining to Divine Knowledge
- 8 āThe Body Gains Its Shareā: The Asceticism of Mechthild of Magdeburg
- 9 The Enlightened Body in A. H. Almaasās Diamond Approach
- 10 The āMap of Consciousnessā: A New Paradigm for Mysticism and Healing
- Conclusion: The Virtues of Sensuality
- List of Contributors
- Index
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