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Blackfriars, 1957
Professor Zaehner’s new book is most timely, and—to anybody with any interest in the subject, from whatever point of view—quite absorbing. It is also a pioneer work, for although the study of ‘comparative mysticism’ is not totally new, the little that has hitherto been written about it has been mainly from an a priori standpoint with little regard for ...
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Professor Zaehner’s new book is most timely, and—to anybody with any interest in the subject, from whatever point of view—quite absorbing. It is also a pioneer work, for although the study of ‘comparative mysticism’ is not totally new, the little that has hitherto been written about it has been mainly from an a priori standpoint with little regard for ...
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Mysticism and the Problems of Mystical Literature
Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, 1976In both its philosophical and artistic reference, "mysticism" is notoriously an abused term. Used irresponsibly, it has served rationalists as a pejorative synonym for superstition, for vague or irrational thought, for dreaminess. It has been adopted by journalists to identify Theosophy and other bastard cults of even less integrity, and has too often ...
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Mystics' Critiques of Mystical Experience
Revue de l'histoire des religions, 2004Lorsque les mystiques critiquent l'expérience mystique Les études existantes sur le mysticisme ont souligné la place tenue par l' "expérience" dans l'écriture et la pratique mystiques. Cependant, l'examen de textes issus de traditions mystiques differentes montre que plusieurs auteurs mystiques étaient réservés sur la poursuite de cette ...
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The Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism and Esotericism
, 2016Mysticism and esotericism are two intimately related strands of the Western tradition. Despite their close connections, however, scholars tend to treat them separately.Whereas the study ofWestern mysticism enjoys a long and established history, Western ...
G. Magee
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Mysticism in Iran: The Safavid Roots of a Modern Concept
, 2017and political pressures in Anatolia. However, while the central administration was far from in control of these population movements, it was not slow, at least from the second half of the fifteenth century onward, to adapt to and even to alter, in some ...
Ata Anzali
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On the Mystical Rejection of Mystical Illuminations
Religious Studies, 1966A considerable part of mystical literature deals with, or reports on, experiences that are of a cognitive and not merely of an emotive nature. Information is alleged to have been received not only from higher spheres but also about these higher spheres.
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Notes and Queries
Over and over again in these lectures I have raised points and left them open and unfinished until we should have come to the subject of Mysticism. Some of you, I fear, may have smiled as you noted my reiterated postponements.
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Over and over again in these lectures I have raised points and left them open and unfinished until we should have come to the subject of Mysticism. Some of you, I fear, may have smiled as you noted my reiterated postponements.
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The mystic way or the mystic ways?
2006If Spener was frequently caught between prudence and the desire to tap sources of religious vitality on the one hand, and what could in practice be kept within the bounds of the Protestant establishments on the other, the problem was even more acute for his protege and disciple, August Hermann Francke (1663–1727).
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The Psychoanalytic Review, 2001
Psychoanalysis is officially nonmystical or antimystical. It sticks pins in mystical bubbles. It understands mystical states as remnants of infantile experience, expressions of primitive drives and structures. Yet—as with so much in life—there are complexities and countertendencies.
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Psychoanalysis is officially nonmystical or antimystical. It sticks pins in mystical bubbles. It understands mystical states as remnants of infantile experience, expressions of primitive drives and structures. Yet—as with so much in life—there are complexities and countertendencies.
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2021
In chapter 14, J. Kameron Carter offers an interpretation of the poem Zong! by M. NourbeSe Philip. Zong is the name of a British slave ship on which around 150 African slaves were murdered in 1781. Philip produces her poem Zong! with words from a 1783 court case that absolves the British slavers.
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In chapter 14, J. Kameron Carter offers an interpretation of the poem Zong! by M. NourbeSe Philip. Zong is the name of a British slave ship on which around 150 African slaves were murdered in 1781. Philip produces her poem Zong! with words from a 1783 court case that absolves the British slavers.
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