Alastair R McGlashan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5856616 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alastair R McGlashan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alastair R |
| FAMILY NAME | McGlashan |
| SIGNATURE | MCGLASHAN A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yahoo (United Kingdom) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Violent Devotion and Depth Psychology
The purpose of this article is to test how far the concepts of depth psychology can be used to further understanding of religiously motivated acts of violence that occurred in another age and another cultural environment. The particular behaviour studied is the violence exhibited in the lives of the Tamil Saiva saints of Southern India who lived in the sixth to eighth centuries CE. The relevant historical evidence is the account of their lives re…
The Melting Heart
This article compares the religious experience of the founding poet-saints of the Saivite bhakti movement in the Tamil country of the sixth to ninth centuries CE with that of contemporary Saivite devotees. The historical background of the bhakti tradition within Tamil Saivism is sketched, with a brief description of its spirituality. Material collected in interviews with Tamil-speaking Saivites is presented, including personal accounts of the ori…
The Tiruttoṇṭar Tiruvantāti of Nampi Āṇṭār Nampi
The Use of Symbols in Religion from the Perspective of Analytical Psychology
The consecration of Dr David Jenkins as Bishop of Durham, and many of his public utterances before and since, have concentrated public attention on the resurrection of Christ. What happened on the first Easter Day? Can we ever know for sure? If not, is that a bad or a good thing? What do Christians mean by their credal professions of faith? Do we, must we, all mean more or less the same thing when we repeat them? If that mysterious but constituti…
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The Use of Symbols in Religion from the Perspective of Analytical Psychology
The consecration of Dr David Jenkins as Bishop of Durham, and many of his public utterances before and since, have concentrated public attention on the resurrection of Christ. What happened on the first Easter Day? Can we ever know for sure? If not, is that a bad or a good thing? What do Christians mean by their credal professions of faith? Do we, must we, all mean more or less the same thing when we repeat them? If that mysterious but constituti…
The Tiruttoṇṭar Tiruvantāti of Nampi Āṇṭār Nampi
Violent Devotion and Depth Psychology
The purpose of this article is to test how far the concepts of depth psychology can be used to further understanding of religiously motivated acts of violence that occurred in another age and another cultural environment. The particular behaviour studied is the violence exhibited in the lives of the Tamil Saiva saints of Southern India who lived in the sixth to eighth centuries CE. The relevant historical evidence is the account of their lives re…
The Melting Heart
This article compares the religious experience of the founding poet-saints of the Saivite bhakti movement in the Tamil country of the sixth to ninth centuries CE with that of contemporary Saivite devotees. The historical background of the bhakti tradition within Tamil Saivism is sketched, with a brief description of its spirituality. Material collected in interviews with Tamil-speaking Saivites is presented, including personal accounts of the ori…
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