Studying Christian Spirituality

<p>This book provides a new introduction to the study of Christian spirituality exploring it through the human sciences and ranging from philosophy and hermeneutics to psychology history sociology and anthropology.</p><p>Systematic and progressive it introduces the key approaches and shows how they relate to the understanding study and practice of spirituality. Covering a vast amount of ground - from traditional themes such as images of God spiritual direction and pilgrimage to more contemporary issues such as place and space cyberspace and postcolonialism - the author takes an ecumenical inclusive stance allowing the book to be used in a wide variety of courses and across denominations.</p>