Swedenborg Researcher S Manual

A reference tool for anyone interested in researching the thought of Swedish theologian Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772). The revised and expanded second edition includes a complete bibliography of Swedenborg's writings, published and unpublished; an extensive bibliography of books about him or his thought; an overview of key concepts in his theology, a listing of major documentary collections of Swedenborg's works, and a chronology of Swedenborg's life and works.

The works of Emanuel Swedenborg and commentary on those works together form a considerable body of material, but scholars have often found it difficult to access them. William Ross Woofenden has compiled The Swedenborg Explorer's Guidebook, a greatly expanded second edition ofhis Swedenborg Researcher Manual, which provides an annotated bibliography of works written by Swedenborg including his early scientific studies, government treatises, and literary productions, as well as his later theological writings and a careful selection of secondary literature. In addition, this research manual provides a glossary of Swedenborgian terminology and key concepts of Swedenborgtheological thought. A special feature is a list of worldwiderepositories of Swedenborgian material. William Ross Woofenden is a preeminent Swedenborgian scholar, whofounded and edits the journal Studia Swedenborgiana. He served as general editor of the Redesigned Standard Edition of the Works of Emanuel Swedenborg.

Mindfulness and yoga are widely said to improve mental and physical health, and booming industries have emerged to teach them as secular techniques. This movement is typically traced to the 1970s, but it actually began a century earlier. Wakoh Shannon Hickey shows that most of those who first advocated meditation for healing were women: leaders of the "Mind Cure" movement, which emerged during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Instructed by Buddhist and Hindu missionaries, many of these women believed that by transforming consciousness, they could also transform oppressive conditions in which they lived. For women - and many African-American men - "Mind Cure" meant not just happiness, but liberation in concrete political, economic, and legal terms. In response to the perceived threat posed by this movement, white male doctors and clergy with elite academic credentials began to channel key Mind Cure methods into "scientific" psychology and medicine. As mental therapeutics became medicalized and commodified, the religious roots of meditation, like the social-justice agendas of early Mind Curers, fell by the wayside. Although characterized as "universal," mindfulness has very specific historical and cultural roots, and is now largely marketed by and accessible to affluent white people. Hickey examines religious dimensions of the Mindfulness movement and clinical research about its effectiveness. By treating stress-related illness individualistically, she argues, the contemporary movement obscures the roles religious communities can play in fostering civil society and personal wellbeing, and diverts attention from systemic factors fueling stress-related illness, including racism, sexism, and poverty.

Swedenborg's Secret is the first major study of the eighteenth-century Swedish philosopher and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) to be published in English for over fifty years. Using a wealth of historical material, Lars Bergquist paints a vivid portrait of an ambitious and practical man who was one of the greatest figures of the Enlightenment and who captivated generations of thinkers with his stunning vision of human destiny.

Thorough and well-researched; based on 1948 doctoral dissertation.