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Spiritual life. --- Life, Spiritual --- Religious life --- Spirituality

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The beguines began to form in various parts of Europe over eight hundred years ago, around the year 1200. Beguines were laywomen, not nuns, and thus did not take solemn vows and did not live in monasteries. The beguines were a phenomenal movement that swept across Europe yet they were never a religious order or a formalized movement. But there were common elements that rendered these women distinctive and familiar, including their common way of life, their unusual business acumen, and their commitment to the poor and marginalized. These women were essentially self defined, in opposition to the many attempts to control and define them.

Beguines --- Béguines (religion) --- Beguines --- Béguines (religion) --- Spiritual life --- Vie spirituelle --- Women --- Femmes --- Spiritual life. --- Vie spirituelle --- Christianity. --- Christianisme. --- History

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Piety. --- Christian life. --- Christian life --- Christians --- Discipleship --- Religious life --- Theology, Practical --- Spiritual life --- Christianity

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Unseen presences. Apparitions. Hearing voices. Although some people would find such experiences to be distressing and seek clinical help, others perceive them as transformative. Occasionally, these unusual phenomena give rise to new spiritual paths or religious movements. Revelatory Events provides fresh insights into what is perhaps the bedrock of all religious belief-the claim that otherworldly powers are active in human affairs.Ann Taves looks at Mormonism, Alcoholics Anonymous, and A Course in Miracles-three cases in which insiders claimed that a spiritual presence guided the emergence of a new spiritual path. In the 1820s, Joseph Smith, Jr., reportedly translated the Book of Mormon from ancient gold plates unearthed with the help of an angel. Bill Wilson cofounded AA after having an ecstatic experience while hospitalized for alcoholism in 1934. Helen Schucman scribed the words of an inner voice that she attributed to Jesus, which formed the basis of her 1976 best-selling self-study course. In each case, Taves argues, the sense of a guiding presence emerged through a complex, creative interaction between a founding figure with unusual mental abilities and an initial set of collaborators who were drawn into the process by diverse motives of their own.A major work of scholarship, this compelling and accessible book traces the very human processes behind such events.

Latter Day Saint churches. --- Spirituality --- Spiritual life --- Revelation --- Experience (Religion) --- Alcoholics Anonymous. --- Course in Miracles.

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Ecumenical movement --- Christian union --- Spirituality --- Catholic Church --- Catholic Church --- Jesuits --- Jesuits --- Spiritual life