Contemporary Spiritualities Social and Religious Contexts

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Influential writers and thinkers: a retrospective reconsideration and a contemporary contextualization 2. Mysticism and contemporary society:some Teilhardian reflections 3. Bede Griffiths and the one universal reality 4. Thomas Merton: monk for the contemporary world 5. Jiddu Krishnamurti and the open secret 6. The Dalai Lama:dimensions of spirituality 7. Carol Christ:feminist spirituality and narrative thealogy 8. Faith communities:spiritual diversity, hope and tension in the modern world 9. In the realm of the deathless: the thai Buddhist Forest Retreat Order 10. A Society in transition: ISKCON`s spiritual path 11. The Amish: case study of a religious community 12. Until the power of the lord comes down : African American Pentecostal spirituality and tarrying 13. Taize: a global and postcolonial theology of community 14. The diaspora of the Khoja Shi`a Ithnasheeries 15. Strret spirituality: a narrative case study of a street community