CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health articles from June 1999

CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health archives from June 1999

The path of emptiness.(Philosopher's Path in Kyoto, Japan)
June 22, 1999... The Philosopher's Path parallels an old canal for three miles along the base of the mountains in the eastern suburbs of Kyoto, Japan. It is a popular place for walkers, joggers, and tourists. The neighborhood is picturesque and affluent. There...

Monica, Bill, and ethics.(sex scandal involving Monica Lewinsky and Pres Bill Clinton)
June 22, 1999... The Clinton scandal is an occasion for ethical reflection, but it is far from the most important issue facing ethicists. Professional ethicists are sure to get mileage for years from analysis of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal and...

Can Buddhism save? Finding resonance in incommensurability.
June 22, 1999... Since religions such as Buddhism and Christianity have fundamentally different grammars, how can they have anything to say to each other? Thirty years ago, before I began the study of Zen, I said, "Mountains are mountains, waters are...

Walking around the Buddha.(reflections of an Episcopal priest)
June 22, 1999... An Episcopal priest sees herself and her faith in a new way in the landscape of Thai Buddhism. Recently, I went to Thailand for a two-week tour that emphasized culture and close contact with Thai and hill-tribes people. Our tour guide, a...

On the wings of a blue heron.(religious reflections on the interdependence of nature)
June 22, 1999... Interdependence is at the heart of the environmentalism - and of Christianity and Buddhism - and everything else. Three years ago on a wet Pacific Northwest morning in November, I stumbled across the bridge that hangs over the creek in...

In the pluralism of religious and cultural worlds: notes toward a theological and political program.
June 22, 1999... Might the authority of those who suffer bring diverse religious and cultural worlds together? The new political theology is the attempt to talk about the times, more precisely, to discuss the prevailing historical, social, and cultural...

In the dark speech of praise and birth: the prints of Judith Anderson.(artist)
June 22, 1999... The artist's engagement of soul and art resolves itself in the body divine. The picture is printed in viridian ink, so dark as to appear blue (see p. 238). The central image draws the eye first: a three-quarter view of the Venus of...

Advice to a novice.(poem)
June 22, 1999... You who aspire to the mystic state, who would be saint by pure passivity and for this goal crush every urge to take a cushioned pause between two tasks, clamp shut inquiring eyes, measure every pace and never run or leap or jump for...

In spacetime.(poem)
June 22, 1999... . . . becoming in a three-dimensional space is somehow transformed into being in a four-dimensional world. - Albert Einstein I almost remember her hair growing darker as she gazes from our window. I will drive with her again...

The vigil.(poem)
June 22, 1999... We say that love is all in all And still we keep this watch For the lover: Agnes on sandals Through the dust, a winding sheet Around the plain body Of love's plain work; Diana's heels on cobblestones Through the...

Behind the curtain.(poem)
June 22, 1999... Sunday in the great house, preparations Are being made on something like a stage By something like performers holding props For something like an audience. One like a master of ceremonies Pours something like a god into...

Can the "new awakening" become prophetic?(discussions on religious awakening in books)
June 22, 1999... Whatever the reason- the coming of a new millennium or a growing dissatisfaction with materialism-something has sparked a new wave of religious seeking throughout the culture. Though some caution that the "new" spirituality, with its personal,...

Reinventing American Protestantism: Christianity in the New Millennium.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Whatever the reason- the coming of a new millennium or a growing dissatisfaction with materialism-something has sparked a new wave of religious seeking throughout the culture. Though some caution that the "new" spirituality, with its personal,...

Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Reshaping of Religion in the Twenty-First Century.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Whatever the reason- the coming of a new millennium or a growing dissatisfaction with materialism-something has sparked a new wave of religious seeking throughout the culture. Though some caution that the "new" spirituality, with its personal,...

Editor's choice: recent books of interest.
June 22, 1999... There are two enduring reasons to read a book: for pleasure and for insight. When the two reasons come together synergistically, you have a favorite book and, if the author of that book produces the same pleasure and insight in subsequent...

Collected Fictions.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Jorge Luis Borges, Trans. Andrew Hurley. New York: Viking, 1998. 565pp. $40.00 (cloth). There are two enduring reasons to read a book: for pleasure and for insight. When the two reasons come together synergistically, you have a favorite...

The Sociology of Philosophy.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Randall Collins, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. 1098pp. $49.95 (cloth). There are two enduring reasons to read a book: for pleasure and for insight. When the two reasons come together synergistically, you have a favorite book...

When the Mines Closed.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Thomas Dublin, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998. 257pp. $16.95 (paper). There are two enduring reasons to read a book: for pleasure and for insight. When the two reasons come together synergistically, you have a favorite book...

Meditations from a Movable Chair.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Andre Dubus, New York: Alfred Knopf, 1998. 210pp. $23.00 (cloth). There are two enduring reasons to read a book: for pleasure and for insight. When the two reasons come together synergistically, you have a favorite book and, if the author...

Avatars of the Word.(Review)
June 22, 1999... James O'Donnell, . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. 210pp. $24.95 (cloth). There are two enduring reasons to read a book: for pleasure and for insight. When the two reasons come together synergistically, you have a favorite book...

Achieving Our Country.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Richard Rorty, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. 144pp. $1,$.95 (cloth). There are two enduring reasons to read a book: for pleasure and for insight. When the two reasons come together synergistically, you have a favorite book...

Religious Mystery and Rational Reflection.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Louis Dupre. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998. ix+147pp. $20.00 (paper). The history of religious thought can be understood as a series of attempts to conceptualize the experience of the transcendent. Methodological, philosophical, and...

Jonathan Edwards and the Limits of Enlightenment Philosophy.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Leon Chai. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xi+164pp. $39.95 (cloth). "What does Athens have to do with Jerusalem?" the African church father Tertullian bellowed in the third century. Readers of Leon Chai's volume might ask...

Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Jacques Dupuis, S.J. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1997. 433pp. $50.00 (cloth). Jacques Dupuis is a Belgian Jesuit who taught theology in India and is now professor of theology at the Gregorian University in Rome. He has been writing for...

Jewish Spiritual Guidance: Finding Our Way to God.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Carol Ochs and Kerry M. Olitzky. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1997. 199pp. $23.00 (cloth) Attend any number of synagogues on a Saturday morning and you will hear references made to spirituality. But what precisely is Jewish...

Church and Revolution: Catholics in the Struggle for Democracy and Social Justice.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Thomas Bokenkotter. New York: Image Books of Doubleday, 1998. x+580pp. $15.95 (paper). Ideas do not float above history. They arise from concrete social contexts and in turn intersect with historical realities. In order to be effective,...

Spiritual Evolution: Scientists Discuss Their Beliefs.(Review)
June 22, 1999... John Marks Templeton and Kenneth Seeman Giniger, eds. New York: K. S. Giniger Company, Inc. (in association with the Templeton Foundation Press), 1998. 136pp. $19.95 (cloth). Spiritual Evolution is a collection of reflective personal essays...

What Does It Mean to be Human?(Review)
June 22, 1999... Frederick Franck, Janis Roze, and Richard Connolly, eds. Circumstantial Productions, in cooperation with the UNESCO Institute on Education, 1998. 334pp. $14.95 (paper). Such endeavors as this book are usually pretentious, self-inflated,...