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Book Notices 12-12-2007 14:48 Pagina 321 0447_07_SIS_17_12_Book notices 12-12-2007 14:48 Pagina 321 Studies in Spirituality 17, 321-353. doi: 10.2143/SIS.17.0.2024653 10.2143/SIS.16.0.2017789 © 2007 by Studies in Spirituality. All rights reserved. BOOK NOTICES The intention of these book notices is very simple: to draw attention to new spiritual- ity books that could be of interest to readers of Studies in Spirituality. Henk Rutten, the librarian and information manager of the Titus Brandsma Institute, lists here some ninety titles with short descriptions. They are not meant to be comprehensive and in-depth book reviews. This time, as promised in the 2005 book notices, special attention is paid to the fields of marriage and art, because there is a notable increase of interest in spirituality in these areas. It should be noted, that most of the books are of a more practical nature. Reflective studies of the respective subjects are less common in these fields. GENERAL WORKS Aging, Spirituality and Palliative Care / edited by Elizabeth MacKinlay, Binghamton, N.Y.: Haworth Pastoral Press, 2006, XIX, 259 pages, ISBN: 9780789033413 (hard cover: alk. paper), ISBN: 9780789033420 (soft cover: alk. paper). Published simulta- neously as the Journal of Religion, Spirituality & Aging, Vol. 18, Nos. 2/3 and No. 4. This book discusses best practices in aged and palliative care while addressing patients’ diverse spiritual needs. Leading authorities’ presentations from the Third International Conference on Ageing and Spirituality in Adelaide, Australia, in 2004 explore practical, sensitive spiritual approaches to help older patients deal with aging, illness, and approach- ing death. This work carefully examines what can be the most spiritually meaningful time in the life of an aging person – confronting illness and death. Though they may be unafraid of dying, older people many times fear the pain and suffering that may accompany it. The process of dying is presented with care and reverence, while providing effective approaches to increase comfort, spirituality, and quality of life. Each chapter is extensively referenced, and many include tables and figures that enhance understanding of research data. Eliza- beth MacKinlay, PhD, RN is the Director, Centre for Ageing and Pastoral Studies and Associate Professor, School of Theology, Charles Sturt University, Australia. Aldén, Ann, Religion in Dialogue with Late Modern Society: A Constructive Contribution to a Christian Spirituality Informed by Buddhist-Christian Encounters, Frankfurt am Main [etc.]: Lang, 2006 (Studien zur interkulturellen Geschichte des Christentums, ISSN 0170- 9240; vol. 138), 178 pages, ISBN: 3-631-55121-5, US-ISBN 0-8204-9896-3. Based on a description of contemporary religion, in which the author refers to modern sociologists (some general and some specifically involved with religion), this study out- lines certain recent characteristics of our contemporary way of relating to religion, and 0447_07_SIS_17_12_Book notices 12-12-2007 14:48 Pagina 322 322 BOOK NOTICES formulates a spirituality for the late modern religiously plural society. It detects such spirituality arising within three dynamic fields: ‘continuity and internal diversity’, ‘for- mal and informal structures’ and ‘vita activa and vita contemplativa’. Against this back- ground the author presents and analyses a case study of Aloysius Pieris, a Christian the- ologian active in ‘Buddhist’ Sri Lanka, and of Thich Nhat Hanh, a Buddhist monk active in ‘Christian’ France. The concepts ‘community’, ‘baptism’ and ‘grace and con- cern’ are central to the construction. Ann Aldén is presently involved in a research proj- ect at Lund University where she is tracing the concept of mission in a Swedish ecumeni- cal context and reflects on its implications in a contemporary and multireligious milieu. This book is her Ph.D. thesis that she wrote at Lund University as well. Since 1991, Ann Aldén has been a minister in the Church of Sweden. Battle, Michael, The Black Church in America: African American Christian Spirituality, Malden, MA [etc.]: Blackwell, 2006 (Religious Life in America), 272 pages, ISBN: 978-1-405-11891-0 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-405-11892-7 (pbk). This book gives readers a broad understanding of the Black Church in America and a sense of its uniqueness in the wider world. It explores the history of the Black Church in America, its African roots, beliefs, practices, politics, and contemporary moral dilem- mas. It argues that in the Black Church, individual and communal destiny are bound together. The author served as Assistant Professor of Spirituality and Black Church Stud- ies at Duke University and Rector of St. Ambrose Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North Carolina before moving to Virginia Theological Seminary. He was also Vice Chairman of the board of the Ghandi Institute. Berg, Aartjan van den, Süss, René, a.o., Spiritualiteit in Jodendom en Christendom, Heerenveen: Protestantse Pers, 2006, 466 pages, ISBN: 978-90-8525-007-4. This Dutch book is an adaptation of course material of the course ‘Spirituality in Judaism and Christianity’, which was organised by the branch ‘Church and Israel’ and the national body for theological education of the ‘Samen op Weg-kerken’ (Cooperative Protestant Churches of the Netherlands). The organization of the course was determined by the Judaism-Christianity relationship as expressed in the ‘Church and Israel’ conver- sations and by the spiritual meaning of special places for Jews and Christians in Israel. Following themes come up in the book: Jewish and Christian Spirituality, early mysti- cism, mysticism from the Middle Ages until the presentday, Jerusalem, holy places, spir- ituality and task, diversity of spiritualities, suffering and spirituality, resurrection, the spiritual relationship between Judaism and Christianity, practical instructions for the use of this book in groups. Blumenthal, D., Philosophical Mysticism: Studies in Rational Religion, Jerusalem: Bar- Ilan University Press, 2007, 260 + 12 pages, ISBN: 965-226-305-2. Can a philosopher be a mystic? Classical scholarship on medieval Jewish thought answered this question, with few exceptions, in the negative. This book, a collection of essays written over a forty-year period by David R. Blumenthal, offers a forceful posi- tive answer – that philosophy was the penultimate step to post-philosophic, post-intel- lectual, post-cognitive religious experience and, conversely, that philosophic mystical 0447_07_SIS_17_12_Book notices 12-12-2007 14:48 Pagina 323 BOOK NOTICES 323 experience was quintessentially philosophic in its preliminary stages and in its tone and quality. Calling on linguistic and cultural evidence, Blumenthal argues that even Maimonides, the towering figure of medieval Jewish philosophy, was a philosophic mys- tic. The argument presented in this book, especially its application to Maimonides, should change the way scholars think about both medieval philosophy and mysticism. David R. Blumenthal is the Jay and Leslie Cohen Professor of Judaic Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Bouma, Gary, Australian Soul: Religion and Spirituality in the 21st Century, Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, XVII, 236 pages, ISBN: 9780521673891 (pbk.: alk. paper). This work challenges the idea that religious and spiritual life in Australia is in decline. This book describes the character of religious and spiritual life in Australia today, and argues that, far from petering out, religion and spirituality are thriving. The author, the leading expert on the state of religious life in Australia, provides the most up-to-date facts and figures and compares the ‘tone’ of Australian religious practices with those of other countries. Australians might be less vocal and more reticent about their religion than Americans are, but their religious and spiritual beliefs are no less potent. This book describes and analyses Australian religious and spiritual life in detail as well as provid- ing a series of case studies that illustrate the range of practices and beliefs in Australia today. It predicts a vital future for religion and spirituality. Boyd-Macmillan, Eolene, Transformation: James Loder, Mystical Spirituality, and James Hillman, Oxford [etc.]: Peter Lang, 2006 (Religions and Discourse, ISSN 1422-8998; Vol. 31), 313 pages, ISBN: 978-3-03910-565-6, US-ISBN: 978-0-8204-7592-9. Transformation is a desired outcome of Christian spirituality. Interdisciplinary study of this process, as journey and as significant movements, hits upon key philosophical, the- ological, and psychological debates. Are all spiritualities the same core with an overlay of traditional practices and beliefs? How is the Holy Spirit involved in human life as the potential for this transformation process unfolds from birth? Can psychological theories of transformation that do not affirm divine reality have explanatory and descriptive power for Christian understandings of transformation? This book places a magnifying glass on one piece of the terrain by engaging the work of philosopher, theologian, and psychologist James Loder, mystical spirituality scholars Andrew Louth, Bernard McGinn, Denys Turner, and Mark McIntosh, and archetypal movement founder James Hillman. Without denying differences, this work is the first analysis to identify connections among these thinkers. The significance of the connections is both substantive and methodolog- ical for intra- and inter-faith (broadly understood) spirituality discussion, as well as for the engagement of the Christian church
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