{"product_id":"the-participatory-turn-jorge-n-ferrer-9780791476017","title":"The Participatory Turn: Spirituality, Mysticism, Religious Studies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCuts through traditional debates to argue that religious phenomena are cocreated by human cognition and a generative spiritual power.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan we take seriously religious experience, spirituality, and mysticism, without reducing them to either cultural-linguistic by-products or simply asserting their validity as a dogmatic fact? The contributors to this volume argue that we can, and they offer a new way: the \"participatory turn,\" which proposes that individuals and communities have an integral and irreducible role in bringing forth ontologically rich religious worlds. They explore the ways this approach weaves together and gives voice to a number of robust trends in contemporary religious scholarship, including the renewed study of lived spirituality, the postmodern emphasis on embodied and gendered subjectivity, the admission of alternate epistemic perspectives, the irreducibility of religious pluralism, and the pragmatist emphasis on transformation-all trends that raise serious challenges to the currently prevalent linguistic paradigm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first part of the book situates the participatory turn in the context of contemporary Religious Studies; the second part shows how this approach can be applied to various global traditions, ancient and contemporary, from Western esotericism to Jewish mysticism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sufism, and socially engaged Buddhism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jorge N. Ferrer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791476014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791476017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/04\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 396\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2009","brand":"Jorge N. Ferrer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47036566470911,"sku":"9780791476017","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3a810330-5c95-4ee3-9cbf-b58ab468940c.jpg?v=1752637962","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-participatory-turn-jorge-n-ferrer-9780791476017","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}