Language and Self-Transformation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language and Self-Transformation write by Peter G. Stromberg. This book was released on 2008-06-26. Language and Self-Transformation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using the Christian conversion narrative as a primary example, this book examines how people deal with emotional conflict through language.
The Process of Self-Transformation
The Process of Self-Transformation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Process of Self-Transformation write by Vicente Hao Chin. This book was released on 2015-06-01. The Process of Self-Transformation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “From time immemorial,” says the author, “sages from diverse cultures have passed on enduring solutions to the dilemmas of living. Yet their insights are not as known to the world as they ought to be.” This deep, wise, and practical guide intends to make them more so. It is the harvest of the popular seminars developed and led by Vic Hao Chin, former president of the Theosophical Society in the Philippines and a worldwide teacher and presenter. He gives time-proven approaches for eliminating fear, resentment, worry, depression, and the stress of daily living in order to deepen spiritual practice. And he includes sections on overcoming negative conditioning, developing relationships, and optimizing physical health. To help readers in the process of self-actualization, he also provides helpful illustrations, case studies, and step-by-step instructions for meditation and breathing exercises.
Self and Self-transformation in the History of Religions
Self and Self-transformation in the History of Religions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Self and Self-transformation in the History of Religions write by David Dean Shulman. This book was released on 2002. Self and Self-transformation in the History of Religions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book brings together scholars of a variety of the world's major civilizations to focus on the universal theme of inner transformation. The idea of the "self" is a cultural formation like any other, and models and conceptions of the inner world of the person vary widely from one civilization to another. Nonetheless, all the world's great religions insist on the need to transform this inner world. Such transformations, often ritually enacted, reveal the primary intuitions, drives, and conflicts active within the culture. The individual essays study dramatic examples of these processes in a wide range of cultures, including China, India, Tibet, Greece and Rome, Late Antiquity, Islam, Judaism, and medieval and early-modern Christian Europe.
Metanoia
Metanoia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Metanoia write by Adam Ellwanger. This book was released on 2020-02-25. Metanoia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Western culture is in a moment when wholly new kinds of personal transformations are possible, but authentic transformation requires both personal testimony and public recognition. In this book, Adam Ellwanger takes a distinctly rhetorical approach to analyzing how the personal and the public relate to an individual’s transformation and develops a new vocabulary that enables a critical assessment of the concept of authenticity. The concept of metanoia is central to this project. Charting the history of metanoia from its original use in the classical tradition to its adoption by early Christians as a term for religious conversion, Ellwanger shows that metanoia involves a change within a person that results in a truer version of him- or herself—a change in character or ethos. He then applies this theory to our contemporary moment, finding that metanoia provides unique insight into modern forms of self-transformation. Drawing on ancient and medieval sources, including Thucydides, Plato, Paul the Apostle, and Augustine, as well as contemporary discourses of self-transformation, such as the public testimonies of Caitlyn Jenner and Rachel Dolezal, Ellwanger elucidates the role of language in signifying and authenticating identity. Timely and original, Ellwanger’s study formulates a transhistorical theory of personal transformation that will be of interest to scholars working in social theory, philosophy, rhetoric, and the history of Christianity.
Education for Self-transformation
Education for Self-transformation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Education for Self-transformation write by Duck-Joo Kwak. This book was released on 2011-10-12. Education for Self-transformation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exemplifying what it advocates, this book is an innovative attempt to retrieve the essay form from its degenerate condition in academic writing. Its purpose is to create pedagogical space in which the inner struggle of ‘lived experience’ can articulate itself in the first person. Working through essays, the modern, ‘post-secular’ self can guide, understand, and express its own transformation. This is not merely a book about writing methods: it has a sharp existential edge. Beginning by defining key terms such as ‘self-transformation’, Kwak sketches the contemporary debates between Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor on the status of religious language in the public domain, and its relationship to secular language. This allows her to contextualize her book’s central questions: how can philosophical practice reduce the experiential rift between knowledge and wisdom? How can the essay form be developed so that it facilitates, as praxis, pedagogical self-transformation? Kwak develops her answers by working through ideas of George Lukács and Stanley Cavell, of Hans Blumenberg and Søren Kierkegaard, whose work is much less familiar in this context than it deserves to be. Kwak’s work provides templates for new forms of educational writing, new approaches to teaching educators, and new ways of writing methodology for educational researchers. Yet the importance of her ideas extends far beyond teaching academies to classroom teachers, curriculum developers – and to anyone engaged in the quest to lead a reflective life of one’s own.
