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Zusatztext Panentheism offers impressive scholarship, in educational, profound, and creative explorations of a common theme within diverse traditions, with full respect for the differences of those traditions, and with no imperialistic claims to reveal one final truth which will supersede all others. Informationen zum Autor Loriliai Biernacki is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Religious Studies. Her first book, Renowned Goddess of Desire: Women, Sex and Speech in Tantra (OUP 2007) won the Kayden Award in 2008.Philip Clayton is Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dean of the Claremont School of Theology, and Provost of Claremont Lincoln University. He is the author of The Predicament of Belief: Science, Philosophy, Faith (OUP 2011) and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science (OUP 2006). Klappentext Not to be confused with pantheismthe ancient Greek notion that God is everywhere, an animistic force in rocks and treesthe concept of panentheism suggests that God is both in the world, immanent, and also beyond the confines of mere matter, transcendent. One of the fundamental premises of this groundbreaking collection of essays is that panentheism, despite being unlabeled until the nineteenth century, is not merely a modern Western invention. The contributors examine a number of the worlds established and ancient religious traditionsChristianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and othersto draw out the panentheistic dimensions of these traditions and the possibilities they suggest. Panentheism is not only an esoteric, potentially heretical, and deeply mystical vision of the worlds great religious pasts; it is also a key feature of contemporary global spirituality. As this volume demonstrates, the metaphors and practices associated with modern panentheism speak powerfully to the realities of our evolving species and our evolving technological world. Panentheisms enticingly heretical vision of the relationship between the divine and matter has historically been denied a serious place in scholarship. As Panentheism across the Worlds Traditions shows, the dynamism between matter and spirit that panentheism offers has had a profound influence in the modern world. "The essays in this volume are unapologetic, mature, and balanced, and as a collection offer a robust and most welcome form of comparative theology-an artful balancing of sameness and difference across cultural and temporal boundaries. This book makes a new and important contribution." --Jeff Kripal, J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Religious Studies, Rice University Zusammenfassung Loriliai Biernacki and Philip Clayton offer a collection of groundbreaking new essays on panentheism. Not to be confused with pantheism--the ancient Greek notion that God is everywhere--panentheism suggests that God exists both in the world and beyond the confines of mere matter. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributor Biographies Introduction: Panentheism Outside the Box Chapter 1: Panentheism in the Tapestry of Traditions - Philip Clayton Chapter 2: The Body of Panentheism - Catherine Keller Chapter 3: The Drama of Panentheism in IäakOpa~ 's TiruvaymoOi - Frank Clooney, S.J. Chapter 4: Life All Around: Soul in Jainism - Christopher Key Chapple Chapter 5: Panentheism and Hindu Tantra: Abhinavagupta's Grammatical Cosmology - Loriliai Biernacki Chapter 6: Traces of Panentheism in Islam: Ibn al-'Arabi and the Kaleidoscope of Being - Meena Sharify-Funk and Rory Dickson Chapter 7: Holy, Holy, Holy! Jewish Affirmations of Panentheism - Bradley Shavit Artson Chapter 8: The Heart-Mind of the Way and the Human Heart-Mind Are Non-Dual: A Reflection on the Neo-Confucian ''Panentheism'' of Zhu Xi and Nongmun - Hyo-Dong Lee Chapter 9: Panentheism and the Longevity Practices of Tibetan Buddhism - Geoffrey Samue...
