This book provides a set of fresh and compelling interdisciplinary approaches to the enduring phenomenon of the guru in South Asia. Moving across different gurus and kinds of gurus, and between past a
Bestselling author and spiritual guide Deepak Chopra invites you to become the kind of leader most needed today: a leader with vision who can make that vision real. Chopra has been teaching leadership
Bestselling author and spiritual guide Deepak Chopra invites you to become the kind of leader most needed today: a leader with vision who can make that vision real. Chopra has been teaching leadershi
This series is concerned with the relationship between religon, society, culture, and identity in Europe from the early medieval period to the end of the ancien regime, with particular emphasis on con
This collection of lively Q&A interviews with key contemporary female religious leaders focuses not only on the discrimination faced by women in religion, but documents the emerging leadership of
Pastoral Bearings offers up ten studies that exemplify the usefulness of the lived religion paradigm to the field of pastoral theology. The volume presents detailed qualitative research focused on the
Much more than a particular period in world history, modernity has fundamentally transformed how we think and live, and especially how we understand and relate to religious traditions. As the 'ghetto
In this revealing volume, world-renown authors active in the field of spiritual direction offer their wisdom about the core components of spiritual guidance across diverse religious and cultural tradi
An essential textbook for beginning spiritual directors, Noticing the Divine utilizes wisdom from the religions of the world to teach the basic skills needed to offer spiritual direction to people of
Discover the marketing basics to draw new members?and more funds?to your church!Though more and more religious organizations increasingly attempt to use marketing techniques to improve response, littl
Drawing upon the examples of saints and spiritual masters from the world's religions and the wisdom that informs their lives, Thomas Forsthoefel reflects on the challenge of recovering our full humani
This volume brings together new ethnographic research on South Asian women who have abandoned worldly life for spiritual pursuits. All have renounced some combination of the following: marriage, sex,
A teacher and writer on yoga, Feuerstein wrote the 1990 first edition in the wake of a deep-cutting guru-disciple relationship and first-hand experience of a crazy-wisdom teaching. Here he essentially
A messiah is an individual appointed by God to a specific task of importance, and elevated to a level of far greater authority than a prophet by leading (or claiming to lead) a group or movement. The
"This book will be a classic in the field. It does something no other book has done--it shows, with one of the most impressive sets of data I have ever seen, what congregations do and how they go abou
Professional counselors and therapists must be prepared to deal with their clients' issues of the human spirit. Medical models and specific techniques are not enoug to foster genuine healing and long-
