The participatory turn : spirituality, mysticism, religious studies / edited by Jorge N. Ferrer and Jacob H. Sherman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Participation and spirit: Classical and contemporary perspectives. A genealogy of participation / Jacob H. Sherman ; Participation, complexity, and the study of religion / Sean Kelly ; Spiritual knowing as participatory enaction : an answer to the question of religious pluralism / Jorge N. Ferrer -- Surveying the traditions: Participatory engagements. Engaging with the mind of God : the participatory path of Jewish mysticism / Brian l. Lancaster ; Esoteric paradigms and participatory spirituality in the teachings of Mikhaël Aïvanhov / Lee Irwin ; Wound of love: feminine theosis a embodied mysticism in Teresa of Avila / Beverly J. Lanzetta ; Ibn al-'Arabī on participating in the mystery / William Chittick ; One spirit, one body : Jesus' participatory revolution / Bruno Barnhart ; Participation comes of age : Owen Barfield and the Bhagavad Gita / Robert McDermott ; Pulsating with life : the paradoxical intuitions of Henri Bergson / G. William Barnard ; Connecting inner and outer transformation : toward an extended model of Buddhist practice / Donald Rothberg.

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"Can we take seriously religious experience, spirituality, and mysticism, without reducing them to either cultural-linguistic by-products or simply asserting their validity as a dogmatic fact? The contributors to this volume argue that we can, and they offer a new way: the "participatory turn," which proposes that individuals and communities have an integral and irreducible role in bringing forth ontologically rich religious worlds. They explore the ways this approach weaves together and gives voice to a number of robust trends in contemporary religious scholarship, including the renewed study of lived spirituality, the postmodern emphasis on embodied and gendered subjectivity, the admission of alternate epistemic perspectives, the irreducibility of religious pluralism, and the pragmatist emphasis on transformation--all trends that raise serious challenges to the currently prevalent linguistic paradigm. The first part of the book situates the participatory turn in the context of contemporary Religious Studies; the second part shows how this approach can be applied to various global traditions, ancient and contemporary, from Western esotericism to Jewish mysticism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sufism, and socially engaged Buddhism."--SUNY Press.

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