Literature and spirituality ebook

View more libraries This collection of essays focuses on the role of spirituality in American literature through an examination of the multiple ways in which a deep engagement with the spiritual has shaped and affected literature in the Americas three of the essays involve Canadian and Caribbean literature.

The essays in the first section explore the intimate links between the spiritual and the social as they are manifested in forms of fiction like fantasy, science fiction, and the Christian fundamentalist fiction of Jerry B.

The second section looks at the ways in which poetry has allowed writers as diverse as Emily Dickinson, Ellen Glasgow, Fanny Howe and Leonard Cohen to use language as a tool for exploring their complex relation to the spiritual seen in terms of radical otherness, or of exile, or of the search for common ground as human beings.

The final section approaches spirituality as a defining element of the American experience, from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Toni Morrison and Paul Auster. Literature and Spirituality in the English-Speaking World. Pick up in store.

To see if pickup is available, select a store. Find In Store. Not sold in stores. Prices and offers may vary in store. Learn more about plum PLUS. This book takes the reader on a literary spritiual journal through diverse works of literature. This anthology of literary works gives a taste of some of the ways writers have explored, shared, dismissed, or argued about the ultimate, spiritual questions of life.

The first goal of this book is to give a range of works which show how authors can take us beyond our immediate, daily experience. The second, more subtle, goal of this work is that readers will seek to find health in their spiritual lives.

In spite of radical differences, the religions of the world share a common concern: humanity is searching for a spiritual peace which can give the individual an anchor to survive the storms of life.

The editors of this anthology have their firm conclusions about how people can find peace with God. Scholars and mental health providers have spent decades studying death and grief, coming to understand the processes and best ways to care for us when bereaved.

This eBook shares innovative ways that chaplains and other spiritual leaders are finding to celebrate together during this pandemic and beyond. It does not cover all religions or beliefs nor every holiday at this point.

But, we will continually add to this document. In these challenging times, as in difficult times in the past, it is our instinct to gather and share rituals as a way of facing a shared crisis. Unfortunately, social distancing and orders to stay at home make coming together not only impossible but inadvisable.

This eBook shares resources relevant and helpful to chaplains and those interested in chaplaincy in the Boston area, the geographical home of the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab. Download this eBook. Chaplaincy Innovation Lab eBooks. Conversation Circles Chaplaincy Innovation Lab and Fetzer Institute The experiences of chaplains of color have long been excluded and marginalized in the work of spiritual care.

Student Mental Health and Spirituality Chaplaincy Innovation Lab and Ruderman Family Foundation College and university students face greater mental health needs than ever before, and those needs were only exacerbated by the ongoing pandemic.

Trauma and Moral Injury A Guiding Framework for Chaplains Shelly Rambo, Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon, and Jasmine Terry Okafor In the summer of , the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab was fortunate to be able to draw on the experience of several experts on trauma, moral injury, and both the individual and societal damage that these forces can wreak. Meditations on Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care A conversation with chaplains across settings This eBook summarizes the findings of a combination strategic planning, visioning process with a diverse group of participants.