Mysticism

This is the fourth in an influential series of volumes on mysticism edited by Steven T. Katz, presenting a basic revaluation of the nature of mysticism. Each presents a collection of solicited papers by noted experts in the study of religion. This new...

Are anxiety or dread negative stages before freedom, a confrontation with humans' own mortality and finitude? Joana Serrado inaugurates anxiousness as a category of mystical knowledge in this innovative historical and philosophical study. Based on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997897524Author Walter R BladosFormat PaperbackPage Count 526Imprint Zonon BooksPublisher Zonon BooksWeight(grams) 762gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 30mm

In the face of religious and cultural diversity, some doubt whether Christian faith remains possible today. Critics claim that religion is irrational and violent, and the loudest defenders of Christianity are equally strident. In response, Desire, Faith,...

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Words and Wonderings is a celebration of gratitude, kindness, mindfulness, truth and the love of beauty through the gifts and giftedness of poets, artists, musicians, gardeners, bakers and many more, who discover their creativity in communion with others...

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This book examines and clarifies the nature, meaning, significance and vitality of the sacred (and the profane), in relation to some of the diverse religions of the world and the rich and multifarious traditions of the sacred in many cultures and times,...

Though the figures associated with the Modernist crisis in Roman Catholicism are normally viewed as looking forward in terms of critical history and philosophy, they also looked back in history to the church's mystical tradition. ""Modernists and...

2015 marks the five-hundredth anniversary of the Spanish mystic St. Teresa of Avila. This volume of the Journal of ESWTR is therefore dedicated to the issue of mysticism and gender. The mystical experience is a radical confrontation...

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Zen and the Unspeakable God reevaluates how we study mystical experience. Forsaking the prescriptive epistemological box that has constrained the conversation for decades, ensuring that methodology has overshadowed subject matter, Jason Blum proposes a...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930872823Author Hazrat Inayat KhanFormat HardbackPage Count 893Imprint Omega Publications,U.S.Publisher Omega Publications,U.S.Weight(grams) 1160g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789053400074Author Hazrat Inayat KhanFormat HardbackPage Count 622Imprint East-West PublicationsPublisher East-West PublicationsWeight(grams) 1028g

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This uniquely wide-ranging collection sets out the historic context of the formation of contemporary European pilgrimage in order to better understand its role in religious expression today.Book InformationISBN 9781032238043Author Anton M. PazosFormat...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941810248Author Hazrat Inayat KhanFormat HardbackPage Count 906Imprint Suluk Press, Omega PublicationsPublisher Suluk Press, Omega...

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When Alastair McIntosh was asked what makes a good BBC radio 'God slot' he quoted his late friend Walter Wink: 'To conceive of heaven as the transcendent possibilities latent in every emerging moment.' This anthology shares the best of Alastair's Prayer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781695308664Author Colin WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

All known talks compiled from original sources.About the AuthorHazrat Inayat Kahn, founder of the Sufi order in the West, was born in India in 1882. A master of classical Indian music by the age of twenty, he relinquished a brilliant career to devote...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892541409Author Jan Van RuysbroeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Hays (Nicolas) Ltd ,U.S.Publisher Hays (Nicolas) Ltd ,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Mysticism: Twenty-First-Century Approaches embarks on an investigation of the concept of mysticism from the standpoint of academic fields, including philosophy, anthropology, religious studies, mysticism studies, literary studies, art criticism,...

Without the theologians of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, without the anchoritic writings of the thirteenth century, Richard Rolle, Julian of Norwich, Walter Hilton, Margery Kempe could not have written as they did. Likewise, those who followed them...

For many people prayer is difficult. This collection helps us to be less bothered with our uncertainties about what we should be saying when we pray. We can read a prayer and then sit quietly for a few minutes, allowing the particular words and thoughts...

Some years ago, for no obvious reason, Paul Whiteman felt compelled to analyse the mystical number 666, also known as the number of The Beast. His little mathematical revelation was followed almost immediately by a violent thunderstorm, and by a severe...

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Laughing at the Devil is an invitation to see the world with a medieval visionary now known as Julian of Norwich, believed to be the first woman to have written a book in English. (We do not know her given name, because she became known by the name of a...

This book offers Hugh of Saint Victor's early scholastic thoughts on sacrament in order to re-discover the pre-modern theological understanding of ontological signification. The Christian understanding of sacrament through the category of 'signs' results...

In this compelling study of two seventeenth-century female mystics, Bo Karen Lee examines the writings of Anna Maria van Schurman and Madame Jeanne Guyon, who, despite different religious formations, came to similar conclusions about the experience of...

The apparent disappearance of mysticism in the Protestant world after the Reformation used to be taken as an example of the arrival of modernity. However, as recent studies in history and literary history reveal, the "Reformation" was not...

Environment * Spirituality * Personal growth * Virtue ethics Climate change, pollution and diminishing resources mean that the future will be difficult for life on earth. We face an environmental crisis. Clearly we need technological solutions to some...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788155151Author Gwynneth SunshineFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Onwards and UpwardsPublisher Onwards and UpwardsWeight(grams) 220gDimensions(mm)...

Interdisciplinary studies on medieval mystics and their cultural background. Contemplative life in the middle ages has been the focus of much recent critical attention. The Symposium papers collected in this volume illuminate the mystical tradition...