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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Woods |
| ISBN: | 0385151179 9780385151177 |
| OCLC Number: | 5706740 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xi, 586 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Part I. Description, analysis and methodological concerns -- The nature and meaning of mysticism / Margaret Smith -- The essentials of mysticism / Evelyn Underhill -- Mysticism / An essay on the history of the word / Louis Bouyer -- Mysticism sacred and profane / R.C. Zaehner -- Interpretation and mystical experience / Ninian Smart -- Superstructures / Fritz Staal -- Part II. The field of inquiry : mysticism in world religions -- Sacrificial mysticism / S. N. Dasgupta -- The basis of Buddhist philosophy / D.T. Suzuki -- General characteristics of Jewish mysticism / Gershom G. Scholem -- Theology and mysticism in the tradition of the Eastern Church / Vladimir Lossky -- Sufis : the mystics of Islam / Reynold A. Nickelson -- The mystical spirit and Protestantism / William Ernest Hocking -- The question of "mysticism" within Native American traditions / Joseph Epes Brown -- Part III. Scientific investigations -- A suggestion about mysticism / William James -- The meaning of mysticism as seen through its psychology / William Ernest Hocking -- Deautomatization and the mystic experience / Arthur J. Deikman -- Bimodal consciousness and the mystic experience / Arthur J. Deikman -- Two sides of the brain / Robert E. Ornstein -- A cartography of the ecstatic and meditative states ; State-bound knowledge : "I can't remember what I said last night, but it must have been good" / Roland Fischer -- The creative personality : akin to madness / Fred Barron -- Mysticism and schizophrenia / Kenneth Wapnick -- Cocoon work : an interpretation of the concern of contemporary youth with the mystical / Raymond H. Prince -- Part IV. Philosophical and aesthetic evaluations -- Mysticism, action and philosophy / Henri Bergson -- Four kinds of mystical expierence / W.H. Auden -- The mystic as creative artist / Evelyn Underhill -- Mysticism and rationalistic metaphysics / Charles Hartshorne -- Mystical experience as cognition / John Hick -- Unity and diversity in the interpretation of mysticism / Terrence Penelhum -- The mystical experience of the self and its philosophical significance / Louis Dupré -- Part V. Theological appraisals -- Ontology and theology of Christian mysticism / Joseph Maréchal -- The natural mystical experience and the void / Jacques Maritain -- Unitas Spiritus / Etienne Gilson -- What is mysticism? / David Knowles -- Liberation as an encounter with politics and contemplation / Segundo Galilea -- Meister Eckhart and Karl Marx : the mystic as political theologian / Matthew Fox. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Richard Woods. |
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