Longing and Letting Go - Christian and Hindu Practices of Passionate Non-Attachment

Zusatztext Holly Hillgardner provides us with an excellent text that can creditably take its place alongside the many works of comparative theology that are increasingly emerging in this new and developing field. Informationen zum Autor Holly Hillgardner is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Bethany College. Klappentext Can we love God and others without our desires eclipsing the very beauty, integrity and diversity toward which we are drawn; that is, can we love without trying to possess? Zusammenfassung Can we love God and others without our desires eclipsing the very beauty, integrity and diversity toward which we are drawn; that is, can we love without trying to possess? Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Notes on Translations and Diacritics 1. The Paradox of Longing and Letting Go 2. Mirabai's Love-Longing and Passionate Non-Attachment 3. Looking Closer: Mirabai's Voices of Longing and Letting Go 4. Hadewijch's Love-Longing and Passionate Non-Attachment 5. Looking Closer: Hadewijch's Voices of Longing and Letting Go 6. Longing Together: Comparative Practices of Passionate Non-Attachment 7. Becoming Undone: Mirabai, Hadewijch and Dispossession 8. Toward an Interreligious Ethic of Passionate Non-Attachment Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Holly Hillgardner, Holly (Assistant Professor of Religio Hillgardner, Holly (Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Hillgardner, Hillgardner Holly
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.01.2017
• EAN: 9780190455538
• ISBN: 978-0-19-045553-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: AAR ACADEMY SER; AAR Academy Series; AAR Academy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Ethics, comparative religion, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Hinduism / General, RELIGION / Mysticism, Christianity, mysticism, Hinduism, Religious ethics, Christian Mysticism