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The Globalization of Hesychasm and the Jesus Prayer: Contesting Contemplation - Couverture rigide

Johnson, Dr Christopher D.L.

 
9781441125477: The Globalization of Hesychasm and the Jesus Prayer: Contesting Contemplation
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1441125477 ISBN 13 : 9781441125477
Editeur : Continuum Publishing Corporation, 2010

Synopsis

The meditative prayer practices known as Hesychasm and the Jesus Prayer have played an important role in the history of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. This book explores how these prayer practices have spread from a primarily monastic setting within Orthodox Christianity, into general Orthodox Christian usage, and finally into wider contemporary Western culture. As a result of this gradual geographic shift from a local to a global setting, caused mainly by immigration and dissemination of related texts, there has been a parallel shift of interpretation causing disagreement. By analyzing ongoing conversations on the practices, this book shows how such disagreements are due to differences in the way groups understand the ideas of authority and tradition. These fundamental ideas lie beneath much of the current discussion on particular aspects of the practices and also contribute to the wider academic debate over the globalization and appropriation of religious traditions.

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À propos de l'auteur

Christopher D.L. Johnson is Instructor of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, USA.

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Éditeur
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1441125477
ISBN 13 
9781441125477
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
224
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