I knew that Rowan Williams, once the Archbishop of Canterbury, knew a lot about Eastern Christian practice, but I did not know that he begins his day with the Jesus Prayer. More: Readers of Salinger’s ...

Of all the prophets before Muhammad, I feel closest to Jesus for he is Ruh Allah, the spirit of God and like Adam carries the breath of divinity. I spent my childhood in an Irish convent boarding ...

The purpose of this paper is to offer a comparative exploration of the imiaslavie movement (“the worship of the name”) that developed on Mount Athos in the years preceding World War I, and the kind of ...

It's impossible to think of any religious practice without the chanting of mantras or prayers set to musical sounds. Mantras, or shlokas, can simply be a syllable, as in OM, or longer versions like ...