Enlightenment and Tantra
Subtitle: Hindus and Christians in dialogue
By: editor: Bryan Lobo, S.J. ; sub-editors: Maria De Giorgi mmx, Rolphy Pinto, S.J.
Contributors: Lobo, Bryan, 1970- editor
Series: Documenta missionalia -- 39; Documenta missionalia -- 39.
Publisher: G&BP, Gregorian & Biblical Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Roma
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9788878393868
Subjects: Congresses; Christianity and other religions; Hinduism; Relations; Christianity; Tantrism; Interfaith relations
Other titles: Hindus and Christians in dialogue
Description: "The articles in this volume of Documenta Missionalia are for that reader who is not just a curious learner of Tantrism and Christianity but who is also willing to allow the interaction of two religious worldviews to finally arrive at a unique realization and admiration of the ineffable mystery of God. Any reader interested in this theme would find in these articles great intellectual and spiritual depth that could eventually be highly profitable for one's academic and personal life. The authors of the articles in this volume, bearing in mind the perennial necessity of interreligious dialogue for mutual enrichment, have sought a comparative presentation of Tantric and Christian beliefs and practices like the Eucharist, divinization, mystical non-dualistic consciousness, male-female unity, Logos-Vac (Word) "inter-reading", freedom, fullness of joy, and corporeality. To our knowledge, such a diverse thematic presentation of Tantrism and Christianity in one single volume is the first of its kind to date." --
Notes: Papers presented at a conference held at the Pontificia Università gregoriana in Rome, Italy, October 17, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Tantric aspects of the Mass  -- John Dupuche; title: Weft and warp: the role and destiny of human beings in the cosmic texture  -- Maria Cristina Kaveri Cantoni; title: Deification in the nondual Śaiva Āgamas of Kashmir and in the Fathers of the Church  -- Bettina Sharada Bäumer; title: Achieving liberation (mokṣa) based on Śaivasiddhānta doctrine and practices  -- Ramaraghaviah Sathyanarayana; title: Tantrism in the Hindu-Christian dialogical writings of Jules Monchanin, Henri Le Saux and Bede Griffiths  -- Paolo Trianni; title: Hindu-Christian dialogue as mutual enrichment: the theme of male-female embodiment in the tantric tradition and in 20th-century Christian spirituality  -- Thomas Matus; title: Word (vāc), creative impulse and the power of reabsorption according to Abhinavagupta, and its parallels in Meister Echart and Henri Le Saux-Abhiṣiktānanda  -- Colette Poggi; title: Paths to freedom and the fullness of joy: contributions from Tantra and Christianity  -- John Dupuche; title: Tantrism and corporeality ; title: Virgilio Agostinelli --; title: Tantra: the way to wisdom in non-dual experience of being: some comparative remarks about non-dual Kaśmīri Śaivism and Christian mysticism -- Gioia Lussana.