Religious Studies: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)

monism into the brotherhood. Thereafter, the new monk selects a spiritual guide who must be a monk with ten years of experience. ...

monism (sat), consciousness (cit), and bliss (ānanda). Being pertains to the nature of Brahman in the sense of the negation of a ...

monotheism creative, and impermanent Buddha-nature is the lone reality that a person must realize to become liberated. Further r ...

music polytheism without henotheism. Second, to restrict henotheist variants to only particular divine beings is unjustified, be ...

music part of the worship. Examples of Christian hymns of praise are the so- called Sanctus and Gloria, which both express adora ...

mysticism can help to develop a person’s ethical character, as it represents the ulti- mate in harmony, beauty, and goodness. In ...

mysticism Mysticism is often confused with occult experience, trance states, hear- ing voices, speaking in tongues, extraordinar ...

mysticism attention to his notion of ineffability that excludes the possibility of cross- cultural comparisons of mystical exper ...

mysticism perennial philosophy (philosophia perennis), a way of thought that is basically the same and universal. Smart makes a ...

myth personal narrative by simultaneously creating it. It is possible in many cases that the mystic realizes that he/she is the ...

myth For many religious cultures, it represents its sacred history and the ratio- nale for present personal and social condition ...

myth situation, and it thereby can guide one to properly adjust to normative attitudes, statuses, and roles. Almost from their i ...

myth The contested scholarly conception of the nature of myth begins in earnest during the nineteenth century with such figures ...

myth between ritual and myth. When a myth migrates from one culture to another, for instance, it is not connected to any ritual. ...

myth which functions to expose its structure. Myth reveals the inner workings of a society by incarnating central contradictions ...

narrative events, and humans are as they are at the present time. Moreover, myth is connected with ontology, embodies meaning, a ...

nature In the current state of scholarship, it is possible to identify three posi- tions on narrative: a narrative realist posit ...

nature build. Nature also checks, transforms and canalizes already existing cul- tural forms. Nature can exercise either a direc ...

oral tradition not mean that Native American Indians indulge themselves in the beauty of nature, because their interests are mor ...

orthodoxy ancient Judaism, early Christianity, and Islam, whose teachings are preserved for centuries or years after the passing ...