LEADER 04573nam 22006251 450 001 9910789473003321 005 20130910181322.0 010 $a1-4411-6258-5 010 $a1-4725-5253-9 010 $a1-4411-2608-2 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472552532 035 $a(CKB)3710000000021189 035 $a(EBL)1477396 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001001239 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12394596 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001001239 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10966345 035 $a(PQKB)10835398 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1477396 035 $a(OCoLC)1166367921 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09255562 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6162193 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6162193 035 $a(OCoLC)1100661405 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000021189 100 $a20140929d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aMeditation in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam $ecultural histories /$fedited by Halvor Eifring 210 1$aNew York :$cBloomsbury,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (305 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4742-3463-1 311 $a1-4411-2214-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAcknowledgements -- Preface -- Contributors -- Part 1. Introduction. Chapter 1. Meditation in Judaism, Christianity and Islam : Technical Aspects of Devotional Practices / Halvor Eifring -- Part 2. Judaism. Chapter 2. Ancient Hebrew Meditative Recitation / Terje Stordalen ; Chapter 3. Mystics without Minds? Body and Soul in Merkavah Mysticism / Michael D. Swartz ; Chapter 4. Meditative Prayer in Moshe Cordovero's Kabbalah / Alan Brill ; Chapter 5. Spiritual Friendship as Contemplative Practice in Ka bbalah and Hasidism / Lawrence Fine -- Part 3. Christianity. Chapter 6. Mele?te? in Early Christian Ascetic Texts / Per Ro?nnega?rd ; Chapter 7. The Early Jesus Prayer and Meditation in Greco-Roman Philosophy / Henrik Rydell Johnse?n ; Chapter 8. Meditation in the East Syrian Tradition / Serafim Seppa?la? ; Chapter 9. The Pathless Path of Prayer : Is There a Meditation Method in Meister Eckhart? / Jeffrey Cooper ; Chapter 10. Teresa of Avila's Evolving Practices of 'Representing' Christ in Prayer / Mary Frohlich ; Chapter 11. Jesuit Ekphrastic Meditation : Louis Richeome's Painting in the Mind / Judi Loach ; Chapter 12. Imageless Prayer and Imagistic Meditation in Orthodox Christianity / Augustine Casiday -- Part 4. Islam. Chapter 13. Sufi Dhikr Between Meditation and Prayer / Jamal J. Elias ; Chapter 14. Movement and Stillness : The Practice of Sufi Dhikr in Fourteenth-Century Central Asia / Shahzad Stanford Bashir University ; Chapter 15. Music and Remembrance as Meditation : Sama?' in the Indus Valley / Michel Boivin CNRS-EHESS -- Part 5. Science. Chapter 16. The Natural Science of Meditation : A 'Black Box' Perspective? / Svend Davanger -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $a"Meditative practices have flourished in widely different parts of Eurasia, yet historical research on such practices is limited. Research to date has focused on contexts rather than actual practices, and within individual traditions. For the first time in one volume, the meditative practices of the three traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam are examined. They are viewed in a global perspective, considering both generic and historical connections to practices in other traditions, particularly in India and East Asia. Their cultural and historical peculiarities are examined, comparing them both to each other and to Asian forms of meditation. The book builds on a notion of meditation as self-administered techniques for inner transformation, a definition which focuses on transformative practice rather than notions of meditative states and mystical experiences. It proposes ways of studying meditative practice historically, and concludes with an essay on the modern scientific interest in meditation."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 606 $aMeditation$xChristianity 606 $aMeditation$xIslam 606 $aMeditation$xJudaism 606 $2Comparative religion 615 0$aMeditation$xChristianity. 615 0$aMeditation$xIslam. 615 0$aMeditation$xJudaism. 676 $a204/.35 702 $aEifring$b Halvor 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789473003321 996 $aMeditation in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam$93866935 997 $aUNINA