{"product_id":"dazzling-bodies-rethinking-spirituality-and-community-formation-paperback","title":"Dazzling Bodies: Rethinking Spirituality and Community Formation - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Valantasis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpirituality is always developed and nurtured in community, and communities have particular spiritualities. Dazzling Bodies promotes practices and performances as the basis for individual and community spiritual formation by analyzing specific experiences and real-life situations in personal and corporate life. Three bodies are delineated as the basis for spiritual formation: the physical body, the social body, and the corporate body. Drawing on theories of communication (semiotics, social semiotics, and narrative theory), the book examines personal and corporate spiritual formation, both by plotting the ways community systems create solidarity, and by analyzing community systems for the modulation of power at work. Dazzling Bodies explores the development of a specific language system for each community, taking the sermon as the primary instrument of community formation. Liturgy and worship receive special attention. A theory of asceticism, based on specific performances, founded in renewed social relationships, and forming an alternative symbolic universe, provides parameters for individual and corporate spiritual formation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Valantasis is codirector of the Institute for Contemplative Living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Among his books are \u003ci\u003eThe Beliefnet Guide to Gnosticism and Other Vanished Christianities\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), \u003ci\u003eThe Making of the Self\u003c\/i\u003e (Cascade Books, 2008), and \u003ci\u003eThe Gospels and Christian Life in History and Practice\u003c\/i\u003e (2009).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.31 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 23, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52747005002035,"sku":"9781625647801","price":28.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/MFZXS0o1Z0xlQTdPV3RZbWt0TmdjZz09.webp?v=1764215909","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/dazzling-bodies-rethinking-spirituality-and-community-formation-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}