Overview

Navigating a diversity of religious myths and worldviews in both conventional and nuanced secular ways, this edited volume explores transdisciplinary common knowledge and global citizenship ideology through the lens of spirituality, depth hermeneutics, and multimodality. Guided by a broadly semiotic approach, this book examines ancient spiritual myths, metaphors, and magic/wisdom, raising crucial questions of identity, current conflicts, military power, and crises which threaten mental health for many. Chapters take an anthropological and chronological approach through targeted case studies, in part using Systemic Functional Semiotic (SFS) frameworks and linguistic anthropology to tackle issues of contemporary importance such as human rights, conflict resolution, environmentalism, and sustainable development. Featuring a truly international, multidisciplinary team of contributors applying the lenses of mysticism, neuroscience, quantum theory, psychology, and phenomenology to the themes discussed, this book uncovers deep ultimate connections between different religious and philosophical traditions, highlighting shared metaphors, narratives, and allegories that transcend disciplinary, cultural, and geographical boundaries. Driven by a collaborative attempt at achieving spiritual understanding, this book will be of interest to postgraduate students, researchers, and scholars working in global citizenship education, philosophy of education, cognitive linguistics, and semiotics more broadly. It will also be useful for scholars of spirituality, philosophy of language, and ancient religions.

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Author:   Maureen Ellis (University College London, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.720kg
ISBN:  

9781032506548

ISBN 10:   1032506547
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   16 May 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. From Myth to Math: Chaos and Consciousness 2. Varieties of Musical Experience: Cognitive Neuroscience of Myth, Ritual, and Healing 3. Metaphor, Metonymy, Meronymy: Conscience as Moral Imagination 4. Persuasion through the Water Metaphor in Dao De Jing 5. Shinto and the Sacred: An Analysis of Its God-images through the Holotropic Paradigm, Jungian Archetypes, and the Imago Dei of Contemporary Psychotherapy 6. Sacred Knowledge of Healing, Biocultural Relations, and Modern Science in the Mayan Lowlands 7. Zarathushtra and The Magi: Mazdean Beliefs, Myths, and Metaphors 8. Bharatanatyam: The Contemporary Relevance of an Ancient Hindu Classical Dance Form 9. Good (Puṇya) and Sinful (Pāpa) Actions and their Karmic Consequences (karma phala) in Jain Karma Doctrine 10. Buddhism and Essential Onenesses 11. From Gloss to Figure, Between Mythic and Divine Violence: A Comparative Reading in Benjamin Netanyahu’s and Abu Ubaydah’s Political Exegesis of Isaiah 60:18, 1 Samuel 15:3, and Quran 9:11–14 12. From Mystical Illiteracy in the West to Creation Spirituality where Science and Mysticism Meet 13. Is God the Lord of the Armies or the Most High? Revisiting Judeo-Christian Metaphors to Give Peace a Chance 14. Mīrī Pīrī: The Connection of Spiritual and Political Consciousness 15. Work as Worship, Prayer as Practice 16. Testifying about Universal Access: Liberal Quakers and the Pure Principle 17. Gift or Exchange? The Mother or the Market? 18. Evolutionary Learning in an Age of Mediated Illusion: Virtual Realities and Mediated ‘Dream’ Images for Cultural Healing 19. Humanism as a Worldview and Way of Being 20. The Word-in-Conversation as Evolutionary Learning: how ecoacoustics, sound symbolism, qualia as advanced modelling systems, and Peircean semiosis can help us re-science the Bible, recover its inherent indigeneity, and find a conciliatory path forward 21. Conclusion

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Maureen Ellis is a senior research associate at Development Education Research Centre, Institute of Education, University College London, UK; author of The Critical Global Educator (Routledge, 2016); and editor of Critical Global Semiotics (Routledge, 2020).

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