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Mysticism and Eastern Religions, the fourth volume in the
Collected Works and the third on Nightingale's religion, begins with the publication for the first time of Florence Nightingale's
Notes on Devotional Authors of the Middle Ages, translations from and comments on the medieval (and some later) mystics who nourished her own life of faith. Next come her annotations of and comments on the
Imitation of Christ, a book to which she turned in times of distress. The largest part of the volume consists of her
Letters from Egypt, written 1849-50, a significant period in her own intellectual and spiritual development. Here we provide (for the first time) complete publication and include (also for the first time) material preparatory for the trip and reflections on it over the later years. The last section reports Nightingale's correspondence and journal notes on Eastern religions, mainly Hinduism.
Currently, Volumes 1 to 11 are available in e-book version by subscription or from university and college libraries through the following vendors: Canadian Electronic Library, Ebrary, MyiLibrary, and Netlibrary.
About the author
Gérard Vallée is professor emeritus of religious studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario (Canada). He studied in Québec and Germany, and worked in the fields of history of Christianity and philosophy of religion. He has also taught in Vietnam, India, and Nigeria. His publications include
A Study in Anti-Gnostic Polemics (WLU Press, 1981),
The Spinoza Conversations between Lessing and Jacobi (1988),
The Shaping of Christianity 100-800 (1999), and
Soundings in G.E. Lessing's Philosophy of Religion (2000). He has been involved in the editing of Nightingale's
Collected Works since 1998.
Summary
The fourth volume in the Collected Works and the third on Nightingale's religion, begins with the publication for the first time of Florence Nightingale's Notes on Devotional Authors of the Middle Ages, translations from and comments on the medieval (and some later) mystics who nourished her own life of faith.
