Contents, Volume 14 #2

May/June 1996

Dossier

New Spiritualities

Making our way
through today's
wild and varied
spiritual landscape

Leader
In the midst of frenetic modern life, North Americans are hungering for things of the spirit. Louisa Blair (p. 2)

New Spiritualities Require Discernment
An old Christian tradition can help us assess the real significance of the currents of spiritual teaching and practice swirling around us. Robert J. Egan SJ (p. 6)

Spirituality of Life--and Its Shadow
What is new in today's spiritual landscape has to do with whether there is anything that matters beyond life. Charles Taylor (p. 10)

A Sampling of Spiritual Exploration

Christian Identity and Buddhist Journey. Brian Metcalfe (p. 14)

Energy Field around the Human Body. Wanda Romer Taylor (p. 15)

New Respect for Women and the Earth. Anne Lonergan RC (p. 16)

Celestine Prophecy's Antiseptic World. Louisa Blair (p. 18)

Entrance Way to the Church's Treasure. Kathy Curtin (p. 19)

Mesmer, Swedenborg and Quantum Physics. Catherine L. Albanese (p. 20)

Intimations of Spiritual Renaissance
The more serious element of the New Age combines revolutionary thought, radical religious beliefs and far-reaching psychology. Lucinda Vardey (p. 22)

St. Simeon the Stylite
Aiming to "dig ever deeper," he ended up spending thirty-seven years on a pillar. Margaret Visser (p. 24)

Books

Myths of Tories Past
Rogue Tory
By Denis Smith.
The Canadian Revolution
By Peter C. Newman.
Reviewed by Rae Murphy (p. 25)

Bookshelf Gleanings
Unique parables that reveal the land and plastic words that obscure meaning. (p. 27)

Features

Colloquy
The lesson of the Clorox bottle song. Ed Zemelko CSB (p. 4)

Points
No respect, living truth and the real absence. (p. 5)

Compass Cryptic by Margaret Visser
George Eliot in daily life, Kafkaesque hero and Botticelli's Primavera. (p. 29)

Testament
A dissatisfaction filled with peace. Isidore H. Gorski (p. 30)

Distractions by Martin Royackers
Jamaican Catholics believe what they believe. (p. 31)