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Understanding mysticism

Author: Richard Woods
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Image Books, 1980.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st. edView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
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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