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...
Encyclopaideia
December 23, 2016
Alessandro Versace
James Hillman uses the myth of Er by Plato to introduce the theory of the daemon, something that exists in each of us and that refers to concepts such as the calling, the self-image, the alignment that define us as unique human beings. The personality of every human being is marked by a "destiny" that pushes towards the authenticity of existence towards the so-called Me. The educational process...
December 22, 2016
Ivan Ševo
Many people have dealt with the question of God, as have the entire history of religion and philosophy. Numerous difficulties arise while trying to understand this question. Surely, for great minds of mankind, in the East as well in the West, it was an acceptable thought that God could not be conceived or expressed by no concept or utterance, i.e. defined by no definition. 1erefore, God is for...
Anthropological Measurements of Philosophical Research
December 22, 2016
J. A. Shabanova
The aim of the study is to find mystical elements in Edith Stein's anthropology as a connecting principle between phenomenology and Thomism. Relying on methodological definition of philosophical mystic, as a matching of theological and philosophical doctrines, based upon reflection on experience of ecstatic unity with the Absolute, it was shown that phenomenology is implicitly directed towards...
Anthropological Measurements of Philosophical Research
December 21, 2016
I. V. Karivets
Purpose. The author will show that metaphysical concepts and the concepts of empirical sciences derive from experience. The only difference is that metaphysical concepts derive from unusual experience, i.e. out-of-body experience, while empirical sciences – from usual one. The example set metaphysical concept of pure being. Methodology. In order to obtain this goal the author uses two methods....