Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Part I. Approaching Contemplative Practice 1. Approaching Contemplative Practice Louis Komjathy 2. Contemplative Traditions Louis Komjathy Part II. Contemplative Traditions 3. Daoist Apophatic Meditation: Selections from the Classical Daoist Textual Corpus Harold D. Roth 4. Quaker Silent Prayer: A Guide to True Peace Michael Birkel 5. Jewish Kabbalah: Hayyim Vital's Shaarei Kedusha Shaul Magid 6. Southern Buddhist Meditation: The Anapanasati Sutta Sarah Shaw 7. Sufi Contemplation: 'Abdullah Shah's Suluk-i Mujaddidiyya Arthur F. Buehler 8. Eastern Orthodox Prayer: The Rasskaz strannika John Anthony McGuckin 9. Mahayana Buddhist Visualization: The Guan wuliang shoufo jing Kenneth K. Tanaka 10. Hindu Classical Yoga: Patanjali's Yoga Sutras Edwin F. Bryant 11. Roman Catholic Prayer: The Novem modi orandi sancti Dominici Paul Philibert 12. Daoist Internal Alchemy: Liu Huayang's Huiming jing Louis Komjathy 13. Therapeutic Meditation: Herbert Benson's The Relaxation Response Louis Komjathy 14. Techniqueless Meditation: J. Krishnamurti's This Light in Oneself Constance A. Jones Part III. Reapproaching Contemplative Practice 15. Comparative Reflections Louis Komjathy Appendix: Toward a Technical Glossary of Contemplative Studies About the Contributors Index
Louis Komjathy is Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego. He has published several books, including Daoism: A Guide for the Perplexed and The Way of Complete Perfection: A Quanzhen Daoist Anthology, also published by SUNY Press.
"This collection ... offers a rich, detailed trove of information from around the world on the contemplative practices and literatures of meditation and prayer ... The volume will be an excellent resource for libraries supporting seminary and religious studies programs ... Highly recommended." - CHOICE "We have not seen anything this bold and this global since Friedrich Heiler wrote his classic study on the typology of prayer over eighty years ago. Komjathy and his essayists have vastly expanded the scope, depth, and sophistication of this project here. In the process, they have struggled with all of the critical questions around religious pluralism, tradition, and religious authority, and have emboldened the comparative project itself. Contemplation and comparison, it turns out, go very well together." - Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of Comparing Religions: Coming to Terms "Teachers and scholars, undergraduate and graduate students, and general readers interested in contemplative practice will cherish a book like this. I'm happy that Louis Komjathy has done this great work. It will undoubtedly be hailed as a milestone." - Ruben L. F. Habito, author of Healing Breath: Zen for Christians and Buddhists in a Wounded World
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