Bøger af Michael L. Raposa

A martial arts practitioner suggests there is a sense in which meditation may in turn be considered a form of combat, citing a variety of spiritual disciplines that employ the heavy use of martial images and categories as part of their self-description.

Although very few of Peirce's commentators have devoted serious attention to the religious dimension of his thought, Raposa concludes that Peirce's writings are an important resource for contemporary scholars of religion and points to those of his ideas that might be most fruitfully entertained and developed.

Boredom matters, claims this text, because it represents a threat to spiritual life. It can undermine prayer and meditation and signal the failure of religious imagination. If it is engaged seriously, however, it can also be the point for philosophical reflection and spiritual insight.