Service as Spiritual Practice in the BAPS Swaminarayan Tradition

Public Engagement and Personal Desires: BAPS Swaminarayan Temples and their Contribution to the Discourses on Religion

Tantra in Practice: Mapping a Tradition

As with all the books in this series, the present volume has the word ‘‘practice’’ in its title. Practice is impossible without agents of practice, that is, practitioners, and the first four sections of this volume comprise those contributions that focus on Tantric practitioners or actors. These include Tantric preceptors (gurus) and their followers; kings and priests; and devotees and the Tant...

The Practice of Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Japan

“What we would like,” said Obuchi Yasuo, the former mayor of a farm town in northeastern Japan, “is for young people and their employers in Tokyo to consider lifestyle alternatives never possible before. Male and female employees could maintain a spacious residence here in the countryside while commuting to work in the city.” Gazing out across the terraced rice paddies visible through the huge ...

Editorial: Time as presence and opportunity: the key to spiritual care in contemporary nursing practice.

Spirituality as an emerging area of academic study within health care has experienced rapid development over a 20year period with mounting evidence that spiritual support yields improvements in a variety of physical and psychological health outcomes (Koenig 2012). The scientific development in the field of health sciences and its ethical and moral foundations leave no space for doubt with regar...

Preserving our tradition of community service.