A lthough religious experience is one of the core issues in the study of religion, anthropological works have not devoted enough attention to lived or felt states of being in a religious context.Rather, scholarship concerned with religious practices in mainstream anthropology has taken either an interpretative approach, put forward by Geertz's essay "Religion as a Cultural System," 1 or a...
A committed interdisciplinarian, Kelly Bulkeley has customarily engaged with the phenomenon of human dreaming through a variety of academic lenses, from the neuroscientific to the psychological to the religious, often within one text.Dreaming in the Worlds Religions: A Comparative History does not represent a departure.It is in some respects, as the title would suggest, a relatively...
hinese mysticism has a long and varied history: from the early thinkers of the Axial Age through various permutations in the middle ages to modem versions of both theory and practice.It spread throughout the different aspects of the Chinese tradition and was present as much in the dominant school of Confucianism and the foreign religion of Buddhism as in Daoism, the indigenous higher religion...