Quote from Holistic Islam
Holistic Islam: Sufism, Transformation, & the Challenge of our Time
by Kanin Helminski
White Cloud Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2017 138 pages
I can easily imagine the questions that will arise from the title, Holistic Islam . . .
Our response will be that the word holistic is needed at this time as a corrective. It is needed to help us understand the potential and truth that was birthed fourteen centuries ago and is still in the process of being understood and applied in human life. If it were not for the extremely unholistic manifestations currently claiming to be Islam, the idea of holistic Islam would not be needed . . .
The times we live in necessitate an approach to Islam that explores its soul and spirit, its heartbeat. Beyond the dogmatic formulations, the institutional arrangements, and the official spokesmen, lies a vast dimension of lived experience—of arts, literature, and music, of human relationships, of spiritual energy. (p. ix)
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Our response will be that the word holistic is needed at this time as a corrective. It is needed to help us understand the potential and truth that was birthed fourteen centuries ago and is still in the process of being understood and applied in human life. If it were not for the extremely unholistic manifestations currently claiming to be Islam, the idea of holistic Islam would not be needed . . .
The times we live in necessitate an approach to Islam that explores its soul and spirit, its heartbeat. Beyond the dogmatic formulations, the institutional arrangements, and the official spokesmen, lies a vast dimension of lived experience—of arts, literature, and music, of human relationships, of spiritual energy. (p. ix)
-- quote submitted by Maura S.
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