Карен Армстронг - Дао религии - Как лучшие духовные принципы работают на ваше счастье

Jaspers, Karl, The Origin and Goal of History , trans. Michael Bullock (London, 1953). С этой книги берет начало понятие «осевого времени».

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein, The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam’s Mystical Tradition (San Francisco, 2007).

Outka, Gene, Agape: An Ethical Analysis (New Haven, 1972).

Perkins, Pheme, Love Commands in the New Testament (New York, 1982).

Ramadan, Tariq, The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism (London, 2010).

Schottroff, Luise, Essays on the Love Commandment , trans. Reginald H. & Ilse Fuller (Philadelphia, 1978).

Sviri, Sara, The Taste of Hidden Things (Inverness, CA, 1997).

Tillich, Paul, Love, Power and Justice (New York & Oxford, 1963).

Tu Wei Ming, Confucian Thought: Selfhood a Creative Transformation (Albany, 1985).

(2) Эти книги рассказывают о том, как практиковать сострадательный образ жизни.

Cooper, Howard, The Alphabet of Paradise: An A-Z of Spirituality for Everyday Life (London, 2002).

Gandhi, Mahatma, The Essential Gandhi , ed. Louis Fischer (New York, 1962).

Gyatso Tenzin, HH the Dalai Lama, Transforming the Mind: Teachings of Generating Compassion (London, 2000).

Gyatso Tenzin, HH the Dalai Lama, Ethics for the New Millennium (New York, 1999).

Gyatso Tenzin, HH the Dalai Lama, The Art of Happiness (London, 1998).

Gyatso Tenzin, HH the Dalai Lama, Healing Anger: The Power of Patience from a Buddhist Perspective (Ithaca, NY, 1997).

Gyatso Tenzin, HH the Dalai Lama, Live in a Better Way: Reflections on Truth, Love and Happiness (London & New York, 1999).

Gyatso Tenzin, HH the Dalai Lama, The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World (New York, 2009).

King, Rev. Martin Luther, Jr., Strength to Love (Philadelphia, 1963).

Ladner, Lorne, The Lost Art of Compassion: Discovering the Practice of Happiness in the Meeting of Buddhism and Psychology (San Francisco, 2004).

Marguiles, A., The Empathic Imagination (New York, 1989).

Muhaiyaddeen, M.R.Bawa, A Book of God’s Love (Philadelphia, 1981).

Schweitzer, Albert, Reverence for Life (New York, 1965).

Thich Nhat Hanh, True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart (Boston, 1987).

Thich Nhat Hanh, Teachings on Love (Berkeley, 2007).

Thich Nhat Hanh, Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames (New York, 2001).

Thich Nhat Hanh, Taming the Tiger Within; Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions (New York, 2004).

Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness (Boston, 1975).

Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life (New York, 1991).

Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Power (New York, 2004).

Tolle, Eckhart, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (London, 1999).

Tutu, Desmond M., No Future without Forgiveness (New York, 1999).

(3) Эти книги смотрят на сострадание с позиции современной психологии и неврологии.

Begley, S., The Plastic Mind (London, 2009).

Browning, Don, Religious Thought and Modern Psychologies: A Critical Conversation in the Theology of Culture (Philadelphia, 1987).

Davidson, Richard J. & Anne Harrington, eds., Visions of Compassion: Western Scientists and Tibetan Buddhists Examine Human Nature (Oxford, 2002).

Gilbert, Paul, The Compassionate Mind (London, 2009).

Hefner, Philip, The Human Factor: Evolution, Culture and Religion (Minneapolis, 1993).

Molino, Anthony, ed., The Couch and the Tree: Dialogues in Psychoanalysis and Buddhism (London, 1998).

Pope, Stephen, The Evolution of Altruism and the Ordering of Love (Washington, DC, 1994).

Post, Stephen G., Unlimited Love: Altruism, Compassion and Service (Radnor, PA, 2003).

Post, Stephen G., Lynn G. Underwood, Jeffrey S. Schloss & William B. Hurlbut, eds., Altruism and Altruistic Love: Science, Philosophy and Religion in Dialogue (Oxford, 2002).

Rolston, Holmes, Genes, Genesis and God (Cambridge, UK, 1999).

Vaillant, George E., MD, Spiritual Evolution: A Scientific Defense of Faith (New York, 2008).

Walsh, Anthony, The Science of Love: Understanding Love and Its Effects on Mind and Body (Buffalo, 1991).

(4) Эти книги посвящены теме Священных Писаний и их интерпретации.

Akenson, Donald Harman, Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds (New York, San Diego & London, 1998).

Alter, Robert & Frank Kermode, eds., A Literary Guide to the Bible (London, 1987). Особенно рекомендуется статья Gerald L. Bruns, “Midrash and Allegory: The Beginnings of Scriptural Interpretation.”

Armstrong, Karen, The Bible: The Biography (London & New York, 2007).

Cragg, Kenneth, The Event of the Qur’an (Oxford, 1971). Замечательная книга.

Cragg, Kenneth, Readings in the Qur’an (London, 1988).

Fishbane, Michael, The Garments of Torah: Essays in Biblical Hermeneutics (Bloomington & Indianapolis, 1989).

Fishbane, Michael, The Exegetical Imagination: On Jewish Thought and Theology (Cambridge, MA, 1998). Очень рекомендую обе книги Фишбейна.

Gatje, Helmut, The Qur’an and Its Exegesis (Berkeley, 1976).

Holcomb, Justin S., ed., Christian Theologies of Scripture: A Comparative Introduction (New York & London, 2006).

Kraemer, David, The Mind of the Talmud: An Intellectual History of the Bavli (New York & Oxford, 1990).

Schniedewind, William M., How the Bible Became a Book (Cambridge, 2004).

Sells, Michael, introduced & trans., Approaching the Qur’an: The Early Revelations (Ashland, OR, 1999). Превосходное введение в Коран, хорошо рассказывающее о его поэтике. Распространятся вместе с CD, на котором записано чтение Корана.

Smalley, Beryl, The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages (Oxford, 1941).

Smith, Wilfred Cantwell, What Is Scripture? A Comparative Approach (London, 1993).

В течение десятого шага («Знать») я рекомендовала упражнение, основанное на этом списке (хотя, конечно, некоторые читатели предпочтут сами рыться в литературе). Для тех, кого устрашает длина списка, я пометила звездочкой (*) книги, с которых, на мой взгляд, удобно начинать.

Abou El Fadl, with Tariq Ali, Milton Viorst, John Esposito etc., The Place of Tolerance in Islam (Boston, 2002).

Abu-Nimer, Mohammed, Nonviolence and Peace Building in Islam: Theory and Practice (Gainsville, FL, 2003).