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Stepping Stones to a Higher Vision
Stepping Stones to a Higher Vision examines the development of religious consciousness from religion to spirituality to mysticism. This developmental path imaginatively described as “stepping stones” in the title of the book and as “elevators of religion” in chapter one, has its rewards but also its dangers and pitfalls. Intended for the non-specialist lay person interested in religion, as well as the scholar, the book focuses on Jewish tradition and its sources (Hebrew Bible, Talmud-Midrash, and Kabbalah), but in a broad cross-cultural interdisciplinary context. Ritual, prayer, including meditation and contemplation, ethics and morality, religious leadership, and the afterlife are analyzed in the context of sociology, science, and the history of religion.
In Search of Higher Wisdom
Can someone be spiritual and not religious? Can anyone be a mystic? The answer is in the conversation. As you read In Search of Higher Wisdom: Conversations About Religion, Spirituality and Mysticism, you will embrace the stories and wisdom of a master in storytelling. Weaving from examples from ancient times and texts, Rabbi Joseph Schultz effortlessly intertwines them with todays events and headlines. Delivered in an intimate conversational format with his adult children, Reena and Eric Schultz, he tells them, and you the reader: Religion is to spirituality and mysticism what the body is to the mind and soul. Religion without spirituality and mysticism is like eating without an appetite an...
Judaism and the Gentile Faiths
Examines the historic development of Jewish religions thought in the cross-cultural context of the world's major faiths. The law, ethics, and mysticism of Judaism are compared with their counterparts in Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, and the secular formulations of religion in modern times.
The Kabbalistic Journey
From the mundane to the partnering with God, The Kabbalistic Journey explores the nature, purposes, stages and approaches found within this Jewish tradition. It demonstrates across cultural and interdisciplinary contexts how religion, spirituality and mysticism are integrated in the practice of Kabbalah. It shows how spirituality and religion are the indispensable antecedents to mysticism. Seeking to define the nature of the universe and the human being along with the nature and purpose of existence, The Kabbalistic Journey reveals methods that aid in understanding these concepts in order to achieve spiritual fulfillment. Written with great clarity and insight from a wide cultural perspective, The Kabbalistic Journey of our time is undertaken using the best maps available in contemporary culture. In your hands is the guide to begin your journey.
Sinai & Olympus
This comparative study contrasts the two fountainheads of Western culture, the Hebrew and Greek civilizations, in ten major areas common to both civilizations. Sinai and Olympus is based on a synthesis of the best recent scholarship of various specialists and contains analyses of primary sources examined from a comparative perspective that illuminates new dimensions of each civilization. Contents: The Nature of the Literary Sources; Creation: Genesis or Theogony?; The Origin of Evil; Is There a Moral Order in the Universe?; Paradigms of Heroism; Patterns of Piety; Patterns of Public Worship; Public Life-Law and the State; The Concepts and the Methods of History; The Endtime: Afterlife and Apocalypse.
