Phenomenology and Mysticism : The Verticality of Religious Experience Paperback / softback
by Anthony J. Steinbock
Paperback / softback
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Exploring the first-person narratives of three figures from the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic mystical traditions—St.
Teresa of Avila, Rabbi Dov Baer, and RÅ«zbihÄn Baqlī—Anthony J.
Steinbock provides a complete phenomenology of mysticism based in the Abrahamic religious traditions.
He relates a broad range of religious experiences, or verticality, to philosophical problems of evidence, selfhood, and otherness.
From this philosophical description of vertical experience, Steinbock develops a social and cultural critique in terms of idolatry—as pride, secularism, and fundamentalism—and suggests that contemporary understandings of human experience must come from a fuller, more open view of religious experience.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:328 pages
- Publisher:Indiana University Press
- Publication Date:22/12/2009
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- ISBN:9780253221810
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:328 pages
- Publisher:Indiana University Press
- Publication Date:22/12/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780253221810