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JCS Editor • June 5, 2025Special Issue Article
Love’s Deepest Abyss: A Contemplative Ecology of Darkness
“Love’s Deepest Abyss: A Contemplative Ecology of Darkness” by Douglas E. Christie is a part of Special Issue #03: Contemplative Ecology. Abstract: “Love’s deepest abyss is her most beautiful form,” so claims Hadewijch of Antwerp, the great medieval Flemish mystic. This… -
JCS Editor • June 5, 2025Special Issue Article
Beyond Technical Fixes: Sufism, Contemplation, and Climate Change as Human Predicament
“Beyond Technical Fixes: Sufism, Contemplation, and Climate Change as Human Predicament” by Muhammad U. Faruque is a part of Special Issue #03: Contemplative Ecology. Abstract: Building on the works of the Sufi philosopher Seyyed Hossein Nasr and the German sociologist Hartmut… -
JCS Editor • May 8, 2025Special Issue Article
The Contemplative Mood of Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain: Toward an Embodied Ecocentric Epistemology
“The Contemplative Mood of Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain: Toward an Embodied Ecocentric Epistemology” by Jared R. Lindahl is a part of Special Issue #03: Contemplative Ecology. Abstract: Nan Shepherd (1893–1981) was a Scottish novelist, poet, educator, and mountaineer. Her primary work of… -
JCS Editor • April 24, 2025Special Issue Article
The Persistence of Habit: Tantric Engagements with Dharmakīrti’s View of Yogic Perception
After a century and a half of focus on Buddhist doctrine, academic attention is increasingly being paid to practice. What remains undertheorized, however, is the relation between the two. An example of this is the idea that tantric practice is… -
JCS Editor • April 10, 2025Special Issue Article
Self-Transformative Research: Effects on Researchers of a Holistic Collaborative Study of Spiritual Exemplars
After a century and a half of focus on Buddhist doctrine, academic attention is increasingly being paid to practice. What remains undertheorized, however, is the relation between the two. An example of this is the idea that tantric practice is… -
JCS Editor • March 13, 2025Special Issue Article
Riven: A Mysticism of Place in Times of Grief
After a century and a half of focus on Buddhist doctrine, academic attention is increasingly being paid to practice. What remains undertheorized, however, is the relation between the two. An example of this is the idea that tantric practice is… -
JCS Editor • March 6, 2025Special Issue Article
Contemplative Life amidst Mass Extinction: Catholic Revisions of Spirituality, Law, and Multispecies Justice
After a century and a half of focus on Buddhist doctrine, academic attention is increasingly being paid to practice. What remains undertheorized, however, is the relation between the two. An example of this is the idea that tantric practice is… -
JCS Editor • February 7, 2025Special Issue Article
Supreme Patriarch Suk Kai Thuean’s Method of Visualizing the Elements
After a century and a half of focus on Buddhist doctrine, academic attention is increasingly being paid to practice. What remains undertheorized, however, is the relation between the two. An example of this is the idea that tantric practice is… -
JCS Editor • January 19, 2025Book Review
Review of Night of Beginnings: A Passover Haggadah
Reviewed by Ariel Evan Mayse, this review discusses Marcia Falk’s Night of Beginnings, a reimagined Passover Haggadah designed to inspire contemplative practice. Falk combines poetic liturgy, gender-inclusive language, and mystical reflections to offer new interpretations of traditional Jewish texts. She…
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Josh Brahinsky, Jonas Mago, Mark Miller, and Michael Lifshitz • October 23, 2025Two Paths, One Spiral
Comparative Insights from Jhāna Meditation and Speaking in Tongues
Jhāna meditation and the practice of speaking in tongues could hardly look more different. In jhāna, the body settles into stillness: quiet, seated, composed. From the outside, nothing stirs—an almost austere calm, cultivated through generations of Buddhist teaching that has… -
JCS Editor • August 29, 2025Special Issue Announcement
Special Issue #09: Contemplative Computing
The JCS Editors are delighted to announce Special Issue #09: Contemplative Computing, with guest editors Angela Orebaugh (University of Virginia), Alex Soojung-Kim Pang (Stanford University), and Gunter Bombaerts (Eindhoven University of Technology). This Special Issue invites scholars to explore the… -
JCS Editor • August 29, 2025Special Issue Announcement
Special Issue #08: Contemplation in Education and Human Development
The JCS Editors are delighted to announce Special Issue #08: Contemplation in Education and Human Development with guest editors Robert W. Roeser (Emory University), Brendan Ozawa-de Silva (Emory University), Yuki Imoto (Keio University), and Kimberly Schonert-Reichl (University of Illinois, Chicago)…. -
JCS Editor • August 15, 2025Contemplation + Leadership
An Interview With Ian H. Solomon
JCS: Thanks for joining us for this series called Contemplation Plus. What we’re interested in is contemplation and its myriad of expressions. It’s about contemplation and whatever that means to you at the intersection of an area that is the… -
JCS Editor • July 31, 2025Special Issue Announcement
Special Issue #7
The JCS Editors are excited to announce Special Issue #07: Micro-Phenomenology, Heart Openings, and Contemplative Practice with guest editors Christian Suhr and Martijn van Beek. In recent years, micro-phenomenological interviews have been used across a range of disciplines to understand the rich textures of human experience,… -
JCS Editor • July 15, 2025Author Insight
An Interview With Bin Song
JCS: What does contemplation look like in Confucianism? BS: First, it’s important to note that the term Confucianism was popularized by nineteenth-century Christian missionaries during Western colonial expansion. In its original language, this tradition has long been called the Ru (儒)…