Phenomenology and Mysticism - The Verticality of Religious Experience

Informationen zum Autor Anthony J. Steinbock Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Offers a phenomenological view of religious experience based on mysticism. Exploring the first-person narratives of three figures from the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic mystical traditions - St Teresa of Avila, Rabbi Dov Baer, and Ruzbihan Baqli, this book provides a phenomenology of mysticism based in the Abrahamic religious traditions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Vertical Givenness in Human Experience 1. The Religious and Mystical Shape of Experience 2. St. Teresa of Avila and Mysticism of Prayer 3. Rabbi Dov Baer and Mysticism of Ecstasy 4. R¿zbih¿n Baql¿ and Mysticism of Unveiling 5. Matters of Evidence in Religious Experience 6. Epiphany and Withdrawal 7. On Individuation 8. Idolatry Epilogue: On the De-Limitation of the Religious and the Moral Glossary of Main Hebrew and Arabic Terms Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Anthony J Steinbock, Anthony J. Steinbock, Steinbock Anthony J
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.10.2007
• EAN: 9780253349347
• ISBN: 978-0-253-34934-7
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 248 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion; Indiana Series in the Philosop; Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion; Indiana Series in the Philosop; Philosophy of Religion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day