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Saturday, November 07, 2009

Water and Its Spiritual Significance - New Fons Vitae Title - Nov 2009


Water and Its Spiritual Significance

Editors, Gray Henry-Blakemore and Elena Lloyd-Sidle

Produced in honor of Louisville’s Festival of Faiths, November 5-14, 2009, organized by the Center for Interfaith Relations. This volume contains essays regarding the sacred and sustaining nature of water. Among the selections will be found, the following:

Essays
  • Titus Burckhardt, “The Symbolism of Water”
  • Thomas Merton, “Selections on Rain, Baptism, Tears, et.al.” compiled by Jonathan Montaldo
  • Martin Lings, “The Quranic Symbolism of Water” and “The Spiritual Significance of Tears and Laughter,”
  • Hamza Yusuf Hanson, “Words for Water”
  • Wendell Berry, “Selections” 
  • Coleman Barks, an essay and some Rumi Poems
  • Graehme Castleman, “On the Symbolism of Baptism”
  • Alexander Price “The Centrality of Water in the Hopi Tradition”,
  • Ananda K. Coomeraswamy, “The Flood in the Hindu Tradition” and “The Sea”,
  • Timothy Scott, “The Symbolism of Water and the Crossing of the Waters” from the book The Symbolism of the Ark.
  • Mark Hogg (Edge Outreach), On Water and Social Justice (no title yet)
  • Shantia Yarahmadian, “On the Etymology of the Word ‘Water’ in Many of World’s Languages” 
Poetry
  • Wendell Berry, “The Book of Camp Branch”
  • Coleman Barks, personal poetry on water
  • Hamza Yusuf Hanson, “Walk on Water”
  • Lisa Starr (Poet Laureate, RI), “Sandpipers, Again”, “For Mary Kane”, “Three Months Old, Scotch Beach”, “Searching for Poems by Kayak”, and “I Question the Seven Sacred Directions and They Answer”

1) Water and Its Spiritual Significance
2) Symbolism of the Ark - Universal Symbolism of the Receptacle of Divine Immanence 
3) Death & Transformation-  a conversation with Huston Smith (New DVD release)

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