Frankenberg Living Spirit, Living Practice

Poetics, Politics, Epistemology
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8552-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 318 Seiten

An ethnographic study of the growing number of self-invented East-West hybrid religious practices in the U.S.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frankenberg, Ruth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
vii

Introduction: On Rivers, Mountains, and Secrets 1

1. Talking to God—and God Talking Back 33

2. Mind Embodied: Spiritual Practice and Consciousness 77

3. Place and the Making of Religious Practice 133

4. The Spirit of the Work: Challenging Oppression, Nurturing Diversity 174

5. Conscious Sex, Sacred Celibacy: Sexuality and the Spiritual Path 212

Epilogue 265

Appendix 1. Biographical Summaries 271

Appendix 2. Demographic Profile 277

Notes 281

Bibliography 291

Index 299

Über Autor(innen)

Ruth Frankenberg is Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness and editor of Displacing Whiteness: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism, published by Duke University Press.