Mysticism category: 2293 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
The term ''mysticism'' has never been consistently defined or employed, either in religious traditions or in academic discourse. The essays in this volume offer ways of defining what mysticism is, as well as methods for grappling with its complexity in a classroom. This volume addresses the diverse...
The Big Book of Christian Mysticism
The Essential Guide to Contemplative Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
In popular usage, "mysticism" typically refers to New Age or Eastern forms of spirituality. However, the mystical tradition is also an important component of the Christian tradition. At its heart--and much like its expression in other faith traditions--Christian mysticism is an ancient practice that...
by Joshua Abelson
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
General and special studies on Christian mysticism are numerous enough; but it is somewhat remarkable that, in their introductory pages, authors, who have much to say of Plotinus and Neoplatonism, have nothing or very little on the still more cognate subject of Jewish mysticism. This is not, however,...
The Secret History of Western Sexual Mysticism
Sacred Practices and Spiritual Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
The first book to reveal the history of Western sexual mysticism
• Reveals the secret sexual practices that have been used since ancient Greece to achieve mystical union with God
• Details the sects and individuals who transmitted the radical sexual practices that orthodox Christianity...
by James R. Horne
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
This study of the meaning and the experience of mysticism is a product of the author's personal interest in mysticism and his reflection, as a philosopher, on some of the philosophical questions raised by mysticism is a "a psychological process which occurs with varying degrees of intensity in...
Growing into God
A Beginner's Guide to Christian Mysticism
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
For many people, the word mysticism conjures up occult, secretive rituals held after midnight in some dark cave. But true mysticism isn’t at all sinister or secretive, says author John Mabry, an Anglican-rite Congregational minister. In fact, mysticism is at the heart of an authentic Christian life....
The Mystic Quest
An Introduction to Jewish Mysticism
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1977
The Mystic Quest explains the major ideas and concepts of Jewish mystical thought in a way that the general reader can clearly understand. Drawing upon his own extensive research as well as on the growing body of scholarly material on the subject, Dr. David Ariel, president of the Cleveland College...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism brings together a team of leading international scholars to explore the origins, evolution, and contemporary debates relating to Christian mystics, texts, and the movements they inspired.
Provides a comprehensive and engaging account of Christian...
Egocentricity and Mysticism
An Anthropological Study
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
In Egocentricity and Mysticism, Ernst Tugendhat casts mysticism as an innate facet of what it means to be human—a response to an existential need for peace of mind. This need is created by our discursive practices, which serve to differentiate us from one another and privilege our respective first-person...
Mysticism
Experience, Response, and Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 1996
This sweeping study of mysticism by Jess Hollenback considers the writings and experiences of a broad range of traditional religious mystics, including Teresa of Avila, Black Elk, and Gopi Krishna. It also makes use of a new category of sources that more traditional scholars have almost entirely ignored,...
Magic and Mysticism
An Introduction to Western Esoteric Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Magic and Mysticism: An Introduction to Western Esoteric Traditions is a concise overview, from antiquity to the present, of all the major Western religious esoteric movements. Topics covered include alchemy, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Rosicrucianism, Theosophy and many more. Magic and Mysticism is...
by Thomas Merton OCSO
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Thomas Merton's lectures to the young monastics at the Abbey of Gethsemani provide a good look at Merton the scholar. A Course in Christian Mysticism gathers together, for the first time, the best of these talks into a spiritual, historical, and theological survey of Christian mysticism—from St....
by Annie Besant
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2015
So you come into the realm of Mysticism, the realm of the Spirit. It is the mystic interpretations of the great spiritual facts of the spiritual world which lie at the basis of all that is worthy to be called knowledge. Faith you may have, speculation you may have, but knowledge comes only by the...
Western Mysticism
Augustine, Gregory, and Bernard on Contemplation and the Contemplative Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
A growing number of readers are seeking to incorporate the contemplative in their busy lives, and this volume offers them expert advice. Drawn from the works of Saint Augustine, Saint Gregory and Saint Bernard, the writings form a coordinated body of doctrine by three of Western culture's most revered...