Liminal Reality and Transformational Power: Revised Edition: Transition, Renewal and Hope

by Timothy L Carson

Overview

Liminal Reality and Transformational Power explores, draws together, and integrates the many facets of liminality, and informs our understanding of liminal phenomena in the world. Through anthropology, sociology, theology, neurology and psychology, Carson correlates exterior transitions with their corresponding intra-psychic movements and points toward useful methods that contribute to personal and social transformation. In this revised edition, Carson has recognised the resurgence of liminality, and addresses the social transitions that are prevalent today in communities around the world. He examines the identity of the 'liminal' person and highlights the role of ritual leaders and religious professionals as they guide people through liminal time and space. Carson's work greatly contributes to an expanded understanding of the complex dimensions of religious leadership and provides useful insight into our intra-psychic processes during the significant transitional stages in life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780718894016
Publisher:	The Lutterworth Press
Publication date:	04/28/2016
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	110
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.17(h) x (d)

About the Author

Timothy Carson is Senior Minister at the Broadway Christian Church in Columbia, Missouri, and holds the Doctor of Ministry, Master of Divinity and Bachelor of Education degrees. He is the author of several works that explore the intersection between Christian faith and culture such as 'Your Calling as a Christian', 'The Square Root of God: Mathematical Metaphors' and 'Spiritual Tangents and Six Doors to the Seventh Dimension'.

Table of Contents

"Foreword
Preface
Foreword to the Revised Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I
Chapter 1. Anthropology and the Rites of Passage
Chapter 2. Life, Death and Rebirth
Chapter 3. On Being There All the Time
Chapter 4. The Inside of the Outside
Chapter 5. In Our Stars or in Our Genes
Chapter 6. Continuity and Context
Chapter 7. Present Day Passage
Chapter 8. More Than Madness

Part II
Introduction to Part II
Chapter 9. The Liminal Locale of Hospitalization
Chapter 10. Higher Education as Liminal Domain
Chapter 11. In Season and Out of Season
Chapter 12. Liturgy Betwixt and Between
Chapter 13. Caring Through the Passage
Chapter 14. The Transforming Tribe
Chapter 15.

Epilogue: The Minister as Liminal Being
Appendices
Appendix 1. Biblical References in which the Number Forty Serves as Symbol of Liminal Reality
Appendix 2. The Rites of Passage Model
Appendix 3. The Cyclical Rites of Passage Model
Appendix 4. Congregational Resources for Initiation, Ritual and Rites of Passage
Appendix 5. Scriptural Resources
Bibliography
Index"

Editorial Reviews

"Liminal Reality is insightful and thought-provoking. It helps us to deepen our understanding of the many liminal realities in our lives, and to think how such spaces can lead us to heal and transform ourselves and our world. I highly recommend it."-Gabriella Lettini, Aurelia Henry Reinhardt Professor of Theological Ethics, Starr King School for the Ministry, Berkeley, CA"In recent years, and for very good reasons, the concept of liminality has come to the fore in the wider social sciences. Scholars are today revitalising the original insights of Arnold van Gennep concerning the centrality of rites of passage toward a deeper understanding of both continuity and change. Equipped with liminality, this book takes the reader on a voyage into the heart of theology, and into the human search for meaning. It is worth a read for scholars and non-scholars alike."-Bjorn Thomassen, Associate Professor, Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, Denmark, Author of Liminality and the Modern (2014)"This text models how the pursuit of knowledge may be explored and enhanced as the history of scholarship intersects with present human narratives. Academics and pastors alike will find this study a definitive source for the depth issues surrounding liminality. It opens up new vistas as it discloses everything that pastoral epistemology can be."-Dr Peggy Way, Emeritus Professor of Pastoral Theology, Eden Theological Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri"both those working in ministry and students of ritual will enjoy the variety of topics covered in relation to liminality as well as Carsons many stimulating discussions"Armand Leon van Ommen, Theological Book Review vol.28 no.1, pp.35-6

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