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The Globalization of Hesychasm and the Jesus Prayer: Contesting Contemplation(Continuum Advances in Religious Studies)

The Globalization of Hesychasm and the Jesus Prayer: Contesting Contemplation(Continuum Advances in Religious Studies)


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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 conversations on the practices, this book shows how such disagreements are due to differences in the way groups understand the ideas of authority and tradition. These fundamental ideas lie beneath much of the current discussion on particular aspects of the practices and also contribute to the wider academic debate over the globalization and appropriation of religious traditions.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction 2. Definition: What Are the Practices? 3. History: How Have the Practices Spread? 4. Survey: Where Have the Practices Spread? 5. Discussions of the Practices 6. Authority 7. Tradition 8. Appropriation 9. Conclusions Bibliography Websites Cited Index

About the Author :
Christopher D. L. Johnson is Instructor of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, USA.

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The tension between the two attitudes- subjectivised religious practice that uses the Jesus Prayer, icons, and other 'tools' from the Orthodox tradition for an individual spiritual experience versus a confessionally bound and theologically grounded understanding of hesychasm- are characteristic of the globalised situation of hesychasm. Johnson's study of The Globalization of Hesychasm and the Jesus Prayer has the great merit to foreground this tension and to demonstrate the contemporary relevance and dynamism of an ancient Orthodox Christian practice.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781441141521
  • Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
  • Publisher Imprint: Continuum Publishing Corporation
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Series Title: Continuum Advances in Religious Studies
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1441141529
  • Publisher Date: 26 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Contesting Contemplation


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