This month featuring books on Reflection and Spirituality from Amazon

CRITICAL REFLECTION, SPIRITUALITY AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

Author: Cheryl Hunt

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

ISBN-13: 978-3030665937

This book explores critical reflection and its implications for professional practice. It draws on the author’s own extensive experience to demonstrate how reflective processes involving metaphor and imagery can be used to understand and articulate key values underpinning professional practice, to generate new theoretical models, and to explore one's own worldview, including the ultimate question: 'Who am I?’. The author incorporates practical examples of reflective techniques which illustrate how ideas about critical reflection, transformative learning, authenticity and spirituality are intricately entwined within theories and practices of adult learning and professional development.

WHAT MATTERS MOST AND WHY: LIVING THE SPIRITUALITY OF ST. IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA – 365 DAILY REFLECTIONS

Author: Jim Manney

Publisher: New World Library

ISBN-13: 9781608687763

How can I find meaning and joy? What’s valuable in life, and what’s irrelevant? How do we manage anger? What can we do about envy, laziness, resentment? How do I know what matters most? What do I really want? These are the questions that lie at the heart of Ignatian spirituality, the five-hundred-year-old wisdom tradition that has shown leaders, seekers, and doers the way to live a better life. The daily readings in this book emphasize answers to pressing questions about satisfaction in work and relationships.

21 REFLECTIONS FOR LIVING A PURPOSEFUL LIFE: A SPIRITUAL AND THERAPEUTIC GUIDE TO PEACE

Author: Andrea Ford

Publisher: Andrea Ford

ISBN-13: 978-0578843827

21 Reflections is a book of hope, encouragement, and inspiration. This spiritual and therapeutic workbook guides you to discover unconscious thoughts, feelings, and beliefs that lead to negative behavior patterns. Through biblical stories and clinically proven techniques, 21 Reflections is hopeful that you will heal from past traumas and current challenges that are triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. It is my prayer that through faith, self-reflection, and application of therapeutic skills that you will find peace and self-acceptance during your 21-day journey.

THE PEACEMAKERS’ PATH: MULTIFAITH REFLECTIONS TO DEEPEN YOUR SPIRITUALITY

Authors: Jerry Zehr

Publisher: Broadleaf Books

ISBN-13: 978-1506469126

Now more than ever, people are painfully divided politically, religiously, and culturally. And yet, there is a commonality in our faith traditions that can help us turn away from polarization and create a greater sense of community in which our differences are honored. The Peacemaker's Path brings together wisdom from the world's major religious traditions, including Bahá'í, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Native American spiritualities, Sikhism, Taoism, and Zoroastrianism, showing that we have much more in common than what divides us. 

Books on Religion and Thought from Fordham University Press

DEUS IN MACHINA RELIGION, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE THINGS IN BETWEEN

Edited by: Jeremy Stolow

Publisher: Fordham University Press

ISBN-13: 9780823249817

What sorts of things come to light when one allows religion and technology to mingle freely? In an effort to answer that question, Deus in Machina embarks upon an interdisciplinary voyage across diverse traditions and contexts where religion and technology meet: from the design of clocks in medieval Christian Europe, to the healing power of prayer in premodern Buddhist Japan, to 19th-century Spiritualist devices for communicating with the dead, to Islamic debates about kidney dialysis in contemporary Egypt, to the representation of Haitian Vodou on the Internet, among other case studies.

COMMON GOODS: ECONOMY, ECOLOGY, AND POLITICAL THEOLOGY

Edited by: Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre

Authors: Catherine Keller and Elias Ortega-Aponte

Publisher:  Fordham University Press

ISBN-13: 9780823268443

Beginning from what William Connolly calls the palpable “fragility of things,” Common Goods assembles a transdisciplinary political theology of the Earth. With a nuance missing from both atheist and orthodox religious approaches, the contributors engage in a multivocal conversation about sovereignty, capital, ecology, and civil society. The result is an unprecedented thematic assemblage of cosmopolitics and religious diversity; of utopian space and the time of insurrection; of Christian socialism, radical democracy, and disability theory; of quantum entanglement and planetarity; of theology fleshly and political.

RELIGION BEYOND A CONCEPT: THE FUTURE OF THE RELIGIOUS PAST

Edited by: Hent de Vries

Publisher: Fordham University Press

ISBN-13: 9780823227259

This book explores the difficulties and double binds that arise when we ask “What is religion?” Offering a marvelously rich and diverse array of perspectives, it begins the task of rethinking “religion” and “religious studies” in a contemporary world. Featuring the work of leading scholars from a wide array of disciplines, traditions, and cultures, Religion: Beyond a Concept is the first of five volumes in a collection entitled The Future of the Religious Past, the fruit of a major international research initiative funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.

PRAGMATIC PLURALISM AND THE PROBLEM OF GOD

Author: Sami Pihlström

Publisher: Fordham University Press

ISBN-13: 9780823251582

Pragmatism mediates rival extremes, and religion is no exception: The problems of realism versus antirealism, evidentialism versus fideism, and science versus religion, along with other key issues in the philosophy of religion, receive new interpretations when examined from a pragmatist point of view. Religion is then understood as a human practice with certain inherent aims and goals, responding to specific human needs and interests, serving certain important human values, and seeking to resolve problematic situations that naturally arise from our practices themselves, especially our need to live with our vulnerability, finitude, guilt, and mortality.