Dying to Self and Detachment

James Kellenberger (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-10927-8 (ISBN)

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Exploring the religious category of dying to self, this book aims to resolve contemporary issues that relate to detachment. Beginning with an examination of humility in its general notion and as a religious virtue that detachment presupposes, Kellenberger draws on a range of ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary sources that address the main characteristics of detachment, including the work of Meister Eckhart, St. Teresa, and Simone Weil, as well as writers as varied as Gregory of Nyssa, Rabi'a al-Adawiyya, SÃ¸ren Kierkegaard, Andrew Newberg, John Hick and Keiji Nishitani. Kellenberger explores the key issues that arise for detachment, including the place of the individual's will in detachment, the relationship of detachment to desire, to attachment to persons, and to self-love and self-respect, and issues of contemporary secular detachment such as inducement via chemicals. This book heeds the relevance of the religious virtue of detachment for those living in the twenty-first century.

James Kellenberger has published several books in Religion/Philosophy of Religion addressing concerns with religious knowledge and religious plurality, as well as many articles on these and related religious subjects. From 1967 to 2008 he taught Philosophy at California State University, Northridge. In 2008 he became emeritus. His current concern with religious detachment goes beyond but also grows out of these previous concerns.

Introduction; Chapter 1 Humility; Chapter 2 Religious Humility; Chapter 3 Detachment; Chapter 4 Will and Self-Will; Chapter 5 Stress and Various Attachments; Chapter 6 Desire; Chapter 7 Stimuli; Chapter 8 Simulacra; Chapter 9 Peace and Joy; Chapter 10 Morality, Religion, and Spirituality; Chapter 11 Self-Respect and Self-Love; Chapter 12 Contemporary Detachment;

Erscheinungsdatum	04.07.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-10927-4 / 1138109274
ISBN-13	978-1-138-10927-8 / 9781138109278
Zustand	Neuware