Truth Within - A History of Inwardness in Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism

The idea that there is a truth within the person discovered through introspection is found in most religions. This book examines this metaphor in the history of Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism and the methods developed in those religions to realize it, particularly prayer and meditation.

List of contents

• 1: The Mountains of the Mind


• Part I: History and Text


• 2: Prayer and Vision in the Middle Ages


• 3: Inwardness as Mystical Ascent


• 4: Inwardness and Visual Contemplation in Hinduism


• 5: A Hindu Philosophy of Inwardness


• 6: Inwardness Without Self


• Part II: Theory


• 7: A Theory of Religious Inwardness


• 8: The Phenomenology of Inwardness


• 9: The Historical Self and Comparative Religion

About the author

Gavin Flood is Professor of Hindu Studies and Comparative Religion at Oxford University and the Academic Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. Among his publications are An Introduction to Hinduism (CUP 1996), The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory, and Tradition (CUP 2004), and The Importance of Religion: Meaning and Action in Our Strange World (Blackwell 2012).

Summary

The idea that there is a truth within the person discovered through introspection is found in most religions. This book examines this metaphor in the history of Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism and the methods developed in those religions to realize it, particularly prayer and meditation.

Product details

• Authors: Gavin Flood, Gavin (Professor of Hindu Studies and Compa Flood, Gavin (Professor of Hindu Studies and Comparative Religion Flood, Flood Gavin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.10.2015
• EAN: 9780198745211
• ISBN: 978-0-19-874521-1
• No. of pages: 330
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Spirituality, RELIGION / Buddhism / Rituals & Practice, comparative religion, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, RELIGION / Hinduism / Rituals & Practice, Buddhist life & practice, Christian spirituality & religious experience, Spirituality and religious experience, Buddhist life and practice, Hindu Life & Practice, Hindu life and practice