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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, starting from early and medieval Christianity, addressing a number of Eastern traditions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Daoism, and finally touching on some modern forms of spirituality and psychotherapy"--
"This volume is a collection of articles reflecting on the role of the body and the senses in the context of different traditions of spiritual practice. Ranging from the world of Medieval women mystics to the writings of Jonathan Edwards, from the Tantric practices of Indian sadhus to the emergence of New-Age Western spirituality, this study challenges the tendency of post-Kantian modernity to identify "spirituality" with an intellectual flight from sensuality and attempts instead to retrieve a more integrated and holistic approach. The editors and the contributors of this volume are members of the Mysticism Study Group at the American Academy of Religion"--
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Perceiving the Divine Through the Human Body
2012, Palgrave Macmillan
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Perceiving the divine through the human body: mystical sensuality
2011, Palgrave Macmillan
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Perceiving the Divine Through the Human Body: Mystical Sensuality
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