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The globalization of Hesychasm and the Jesus prayer [electronic resource] : contesting contemplation / Christopher D.L. Johnson.
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TextSeries: Continuum advances in religious studiesPublication details: London ; New York : Continuum, c2010.Description: 1 online resource (206 p.)ISBN: - 9781441118868 (electronic bk.)
- 1441118861 (electronic bk.)
- 248.2/20882819 22
- BX384.5 .J64 2010eb
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Summary: The meditative prayer practices known as Hesychasm and the Jesus Prayer have played an important role in the history of Eastern Orthodox Christianity.This book explores how these prayer practices have spread from a primarily monastic setting within Orthodox Christianity, into general Orthodox Christian usage, and finally into wider contemporary Western culture. As a result of this gradual geographic shift from a local to a global setting, caused mainly by immigration and dissemination of related texts, there has been a parallel shift of interpretation causing disagreement. By analyzing ongoing
Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Definitions: What Are the Practices?; Chapter 3: History: How Have the Practices Spread?; Chapter 4: Survey: Where Have the Practices Spread?; Chapter 5: Discussions of the Practices; Chapter 6: Authority; Chapter 7: Tradition; Chapter 8: Appropriation; Chapter 9: Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Websites Cited; Index;
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Definitions: What Are the Practices?; Chapter 3: History: How Have the Practices Spread?; Chapter 4: Survey: Where Have the Practices Spread?; Chapter 5: Discussions of the Practices; Chapter 6: Authority; Chapter 7: Tradition; Chapter 8: Appropriation; Chapter 9: Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Websites Cited; Index;
The meditative prayer practices known as Hesychasm and the Jesus Prayer have played an important role in the history of Eastern Orthodox Christianity.This book explores how these prayer practices have spread from a primarily monastic setting within Orthodox Christianity, into general Orthodox Christian usage, and finally into wider contemporary Western culture. As a result of this gradual geographic shift from a local to a global setting, caused mainly by immigration and dissemination of related texts, there has been a parallel shift of interpretation causing disagreement. By analyzing ongoing
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