Philosophy of Spirituality

Heather Salazar, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara. Associate Professor of Philosophy at Western New England University, USA. Publications include: “Descartes’ and Patanjali’s Conceptions of Self” (Journal of Indian Philosophy, 2014); “Kantian Business Ethics” (Business In Ethical Focus, Broadview, 2008/2017).Roderick Nicholls, Ph.D. Queen’s University. Associate Professor of Philosophy at Cape Breton University, Canada. Publications range from: “Ghosts, God & the Problem of Dirty Hands” (Ars Disputandi, 2004) to “The Fictionality of Theatrical Performance” (Fiction and Art, Bloomsbury Academic, 2015).

• Notes on ContributorsIntroductionRoderick Nicholls and Heather SalazarPart 1: Understanding Spirituality: Introduction1 Renewing the Senses: Conversion Experience and the Phenomenology of the Spiritual Life Mark Wynn2 Spiritual Experience and Imagination Eric Yang3 Sinister and Sublime Aspects of Spirituality Jerry PivenPart 2: Spirituality across Traditions: Introduction4 Is Yogic Enlightenment Dependent upon God? Heather Salazar5 Spirituality from the Margins: West African Spirituality and Aesthetics Moses Biney6 Non-religious Spirituality in the Greek Age of Anxiety Mariapaola Bergomi7 Becoming a Hollow Bone: Lakota Respect for the Sacred Drew Chastain8 Silence will Change the World: Kierkegaard, Derrida and Islamic Sufism Christopher BraddockPart 3: Critical Perspectives and Re-inventions of Spirituality9 Self-Care and Amor Fati as a Spiritual Ideal Roderick Nicholls10 Bertrand Russell’s Religion without God Nikolay Milkov11 Truth in Practice: Foucault’s Procedural Approach to Spirituality Kerem Eksen12 Spirit, Soul and Self-Overcoming: A Post-Jungian View Richard White13 Spiritual Naturalism Eric SteinhartIndex