Description: Further DetailsTitle: Revelatory EventsCondition: NewEAN: 9780691131016ISBN: 9780691131016Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 11/08/2016Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 539gAuthor: Ann TavesLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Three Case Studies of the Emergence of New Spiritual PathsISBN-10: 0691131015Description: Unseen presences. Apparitions. Hearing voices. Although some people would find such experiences to be distressing and seek clinical help, others perceive them as transformative. Occasionally, these unusual phenomena give rise to new spiritual paths or religious movements. Revelatory Events provides fresh insights into what is perhaps the bedrock of all religious belief--the claim that otherworldly powers are active in human affairs. Ann Taves looks at Mormonism, Alcoholics Anonymous, and A Course in Miracles--three cases in which insiders claimed that a spiritual presence guided the emergence of a new spiritual path. In the 1820s, Joseph Smith, Jr., reportedly translated the Book of Mormon from ancient gold plates unearthed with the help of an angel. Bill Wilson cofounded AA after having an ecstatic experience while hospitalized for alcoholism in 1934. Helen Schucman scribed the words of an inner voice that she attributed to Jesus, which formed the basis of her 1976 best-selling self-study course.In each case, Taves argues, the sense of a guiding presence emerged through a complex, creative interaction between a founding figure with unusual mental abilities and an initial set of collaborators who were drawn into the process by diverse motives of their own. A major work of scholarship, this compelling and accessible book traces the very human processes behind such events.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Revelatory Events
Title: Revelatory Events
EAN: 9780691131016
ISBN: 9780691131016
Release Date: 11/08/2016
Release Year: 2016
Subtitle: Three Case Studies of the Emergence of New Spiritual Paths
ISBN-10: 0691131015
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Publication Name: Revelatory events : Three Case Studies of the Emergence of New Spiritual Paths
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 1.1 in
Subject: Theology, Spirituality, Christianity / Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon), Spiritual, Comparative Religion, General, Substance Abuse & Addictions / Alcohol, Sociology of Religion
Publication Year: 2016
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19 Oz
Item Length: 9.5 in
Subject Area: Religion, Social Science, Self-Help
Author: Ann Taves
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
