ISSN 1939-3881
7 papers in the library · 15 citations · publishing 2009-2024
CrossCurrents June 1, 2024 Regina Coupar
Abstract: Writing from the perspective of a practicing visual artist, and drawing from my original doctoral research (D.Min., University of Toronto, 2014), I will show that the creation and appreciation of visual art can provide a direct avenue for aesthetic experience relevant to religion. As my historical and contemporary examples suggest, in connection with the theoretical work of (among...
CrossCurrents June 1, 2017 Peter Heinegg
Religiously Flavored Therapy, Therapeutically Flavored Morality Peter Heinegg Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment. By Robert Wright, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2017. xii + 321 pp. $27. There is no one quite like Robert Wright on the American literary scene today, an ex‐Baptist secular humanist (agnostic, not atheistic), intellectual journalist...
CrossCurrents September 1, 2011 Laurel Kendall
The Contraction and Expansion of Shamanic Landscapes in Contemporary South Korea Laurel Kendall In contemporary South Korea, shamans and clients navigate a landscape of sacred mountain space, a map that is being reconfigured by urban development, roads, congestion, and tourism but remains a sacred landscape nonetheless. I am following other anthropologists and critical geographers in their...
CrossCurrents June 1, 2010 Wakoh Shannon Hickey 6 citations
Meditation as Medicine: A Critique Wakoh Shannon Hickey Twenty‐seven adults are arrayed at the front of a large, sloping lecture hall: some lying on their backs, some upright in free‐standing chairs, some in the tiers of seats bolted to the floor. Most appear to range in age from mid‐forties to mid‐fifties. The lights are dim, most eyes are closed, and except for occasional fidgeting, everyone...
CrossCurrents June 1, 2010 M. Alejandro Chaoul, Lorenzo Cohen 5 citations
Rethinking Yoga and the Application of Yoga in Modern Medicine M. Alejandro Chaoul and Lorenzo Cohen Yoga is a Sanskrit word that means union, to yoke, or to join; the merging of the microcosm of our existence in our body with the macrocosm. In the West, yoga is often referred to as a mind‐body technique from Asia, usually categorized as meditation (for those seated practices) and yoga...
CrossCurrents June 1, 2010 Bruce M. Sullivan, Bill Wiist, Heidi A. Wayment 1 citation
The Buddhist Health Study: Meditation on Love and Compassion as Features of Religious Practice Bruce M. Sullivan, Bill Wiist, and Heidi Wayment Love and compassion are most important, most precious, most powerful, and most sacred. Practicing them is useful not only in terms of true religion but also in worldly life for both mental and physical health. They are the basic elements supporting our...
CrossCurrents March 1, 2009 Cynthia Bourgeault 3 citations
Centering Prayer and Attention of the Heart Cynthia Bourgeault In the thirty years now since Centering Prayer first moved beyond the walls of St. Joseph’s Abbey in Massachusetts and became a lay groundswell, it has certainly implanted itself deeply and (one hopes) permanently in the canon of Christian contemplative practice. Yet it still jostles somewhat uneasily against the walls of received...