Liverpool John Moores University
2017
Steve Taylor
4 citations
Appendix 4: Transcripts of Interviews with Participants Interview Transcript -Pl Q: Was there a particular point at which you underwent transformation?Yes, it happened after a terrible breakup with my last girlfriend, and I was for the first time in my life thinking of giving up fighting for getting better from my deep depression.It was a sudden, and in fact brutal transformation induced in a...
Spiritus
2017
Shannon M. McAlister
Reviewed by: The Thirst of God: Contemplating God's Love with Three Women Mystics by Wendy Farley Shannon M. McAlister (bio) The Thirst of God: Contemplating God's Love with Three Women Mystics. By Wendy Farley. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2015. 182 pp. $25.00 In The Thirst of God, Wendy Farley introduces "frustrated Christians" to the works of Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite...
2017
Benno Alexander Blaschke
2 citations
In this study I aim to give an alternative approach to the way we theorise in the philosophy and comparative study of mysticism. Specifically, I aim to shift debate on the phenomenal nature of contemplative states of consciousness away from textual sources and towards reliable and descriptively rich first-person data originating in contemporary practices of lived traditions. The heart of this...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
2017
In response to Hartelius (2017), I suggest that the evidence for perennialism or essentialism can be tested, and is publicly accessible, through engagement with the spiritual practices that have given rise to cross-cultural mystical experiences with common characteristics. This suggests that essentialism could be included in transpersonal psychology (and psychology in general). I suggest that...
2017
Thomas K. Mooney, Morgan Shipley
Book Review| January 01 2017 Psychedelic Mysticism: Transforming Consciousness, Religious Experiences, and Voluntary Peasants in Postwar America Psychedelic Mysticism: Transforming Consciousness, Religious Experiences, and Voluntary Peasants in Postwar America. Morgan Shipley. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2015; 294 pages. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1498509091. Wesley G. Phelps Wesley G....
Wittgenstein-Studien
2017
Ludwig Nagl
4 citations
AbstractWittgenstein zitiert in seinen Schriften nur wenige Autoren, den amerikanischen Pragmatisten William James bis in sein Spätwerk hinein jedoch mit auffallender Häufigkeit. Das hängt - so die Leitthese des Beitrags - vor allem mit der Rolle zusammen, die James‘ Erkundungen des Religiösen für Wittgensteins Nachdenken über Religion spielen. Der intrikaten Verbindung Wittgenstein-James wird...
Methodological Innovations
2017
Deirdre Ruane
10 citations
Immersive ethnographic research can be profoundly destabilising for researchers’ sense of identity, and the attempt to inhabit and reconcile dual identities as researcher and participant can take a severe emotional toll. Prior to the reflexive turn in qualitative sociology, this identity work remained largely unacknowledged. Feminist critiques of positivist social science, along with personal...
December 31, 2016
Eun-hui Lee
Currently, the whole world is being swept away by spiritual movements seeking divinity in oneself. Yet there are terror attacks, religious disputes and other conflicts continuously taking place on larger and larger scales as well as expanding further and further throughout the world. Interreligious harmony seems like a distant ideal. What is the ultimate cause of religious conflicts? Is...
Cuadernos de Teología
December 31, 2016
Patricia Ciner
From the exegesis the Alexandrian made of Jn 13, Book XXXII, in the Commentary about the Gospel of John, referring to the Washing of the Feet and Last Supper, it is possible to note that the mater of virtue can only be understood if two aspects are taken into account:a) The inseparability proposed by Origen between theology and mystical experience and;b) The harmonious equilibrium between grace...
Wrocławski Przegląd Teologiczny
December 29, 2016
Grzegorz Wierzowiecki
The aim of the article is to present the general view of mystical experience which emerges from the group of four spiritual writers related to The Golden Age of English Mysticism. All of them lived during the 14th century representing affective mysticism and negative theology. The most significant representatives of the period in English spirituality are Richard Rolle, the anonymous author of...