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The truth within : a history of inwardness in Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism /

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Main Author: Flood, Gavin D., 1954- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Introspection > Religious aspects.
Self > Religious aspects.
Spiritual life > Christianity.
Spiritual life > Buddhism.
Spiritual life > Hinduism.
Spirituality.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the mountains of the mind
  • pt. I. History and text. Prayer and vision in the Middle Ages
  • Inwardness as mystical ascent
  • Inwardness and visual contemplation in Hinduism
  • A Hindu philosophy of inwardness
  • Inwardness without self
  • pt. II. Theory. A theory of religious inwardness
  • The phenomenology of inwardness
  • The historical self and comparative religion
  • Epilogue.