Yearning to Belong - Healy, John Paul
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Cutting across three areas of interest within New Religious Movements - insider perspectives, sociology of religion and the helping professions - Yearning to Belong explores insiders' experience of the Indian Guru-disciple Yogic tradition. Authored by a former member of that tradition and highlighting the rich spiritual experience of devotees, this book also adds considerably to knowledge of conversion to New Religious Movements and to issues of affiliation and disengagement. Exploring participants' experience of attraction, affiliation and disengagement, these themes highlight individuals' personal experience of Guru-disciple Yoga Practice.…mehr

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Cutting across three areas of interest within New Religious Movements - insider perspectives, sociology of religion and the helping professions - Yearning to Belong explores insiders' experience of the Indian Guru-disciple Yogic tradition. Authored by a former member of that tradition and highlighting the rich spiritual experience of devotees, this book also adds considerably to knowledge of conversion to New Religious Movements and to issues of affiliation and disengagement. Exploring participants' experience of attraction, affiliation and disengagement, these themes highlight individuals' personal experience of Guru-disciple Yoga Practice.
Autorenporträt
John Paul Healy is a Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia. His publications include a chapter in Frances Di Lauro (ed.), Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on the Sacred, entitled 'Thinking about Levinas in Relation to a Spiritual Community', and an article in the Religion Compass, entitled 'Spiritual Experience and Seeking'.