Phenomenology and Mysticism: The Verticality of Religious ExperienceIndiana University Press, 2007 M10 17 - 328 pages Exploring the first-person narratives of three figures from the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic mystical traditions—St. Teresa of Avila, Rabbi Dov Baer, and Rūzbihān 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. |
Contents
The Religious and Mystical Shape of Experience | 21 |
CHAPTER 2 | 45 |
CHAPTER 3 | 67 |
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Phenomenology and Mysticism: The Verticality of Religious Experience Anthony J. Steinbock Limited preview - 2009 |
Phenomenology and Mysticism: The Verticality of Religious Experience Anthony J. Steinbock No preview available - 2015 |
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