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Medieval Mystical Theology August 19, 2011 Joseph Milne
Through an exploration of medieval Christian cosmology it is argued that an aspect of Christian mysticism emerges which has been submerged by modern materialist cosmology. There is thus a disparity between the ‘inner’ aspect of mystical experience and the ‘outer’ conception of nature and the universe. Through this disparity ‘religion’ has been relegated to the interior life and the cosmos to...
Educational Media Reviews Online August 8, 2011 Wendy Highby
Distributed by Kino Lorber Edu, 333 West 39 St, Suite 503, New York, NY 10018; 212-629-6880Produced by Alex Mar, Nicholas ShumakerDirected by Alex Mar2010, DVD, color, 81 min. American Mystic is an ethnographic profile of three young adults, each following a distinctively North American religious path. Chuck lives in Rapid City, South Dakota and participates in the Sun Dance tradition of the...
Pragmatics & Cognition July 26, 2011 Tom Froese, Ezequiel Alejandro Di Paolo 285 citations
There is a small but growing community of researchers spanning a spectrum of disciplines which are united in rejecting the still dominant computationalist paradigm in favor of the enactive approach . The framework of this approach is centered on a core set of ideas, such as autonomy, sense-making, emergence, embodiment, and experience. These concepts are finding novel applications in a diverse...
Oxford University Press eBooks July 18, 2011 Rüdiger Seesemann
This chapter offers a micro-history of the early community in Senegal, drawing on letters by Ibrahim Niasse that give unique insights into the movement's formative years. The sources show how Niasse was forced to reign in the excesses of a few overzealous followers, whose flouting of the rules of the Sufi path invited much criticism from outsiders. The mounting tensions lead to the next...
Oxford University Press eBooks July 18, 2011 Rüdiger Seesemann
This chapter introduces Ibrahim Niasse on the basis of hagiographical sources, offering insights into both scholarly and popular representations of Niasse's career. It focuses on the first three decades of his life, using accounts of his childhood and training to highlight the milieu in which he grew up. It then discusses the “emergence of the flood (fayda),” the pivotal moment that triggered...
Religious Studies July 18, 2011 Stephen S. Bush 15 citations
Abstract The constructivist position, that mystical experiences are determined by the experiencer's cultural context, is now more prevalent among scholars of religion than the perennialist position, which maintains that mystical experiences have a common core that is cross-culturally universal. In large part, this is due to the efforts of Wayne Proudfoot in his widely accepted book,Religious...
American Ethnologist July 5, 2011 Michael Winkelman
Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon . Stephan V. Beyer . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2009 . 544 pp . Beyer's book developed from trips to the Amazon out of an interest in jungle survival that extended to a personal absorption with Amazonian spirituality. Although purportedly about “mestizo shamanism of the upper Amazon” (p. xi), it covers a...
Zeitschrift für Individualpsychologie July 1, 2011 Karl Heinz Witte
The Unconscious, Self-awareness, and Mystic Experience Self-awareness reveals that every organising function of the ego is preceded by a state of passivity and receptivity. But this state of mind is generally discarded in public opinion, also in psychology and psychoanalysis, and even in theology. Psychoanalysts study this mode of awareness through the effects of the unconscious. The phenomenon...
Religion Compass July 1, 2011 Roger R. Jackson 7 citations
Abstract Mahāmudrā, usually translated as ‘the great seal’, is a vital term in the tantric traditions of Buddhist India and most schools of Tibetan Buddhism. In early Indian Buddhist tantras, it refers primarily to a hand‐gesture ( mudrā ) accompanying visualization meditation. In the later and more esoteric Indian Mahāyoga and Yoginī tantras, it denotes, inter alia , one of a sequence of...
Adabiyyāt Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra June 17, 2011 Purwadi Purwadi
This research aims to describe gendhing patalon in Wayang (shadow puppet) Purwa related to the context of Islamic teachings. Hermeneutic method and theory are employed to explore this study object. Wayang Purwa is Javanese manifestation of collective reflection and contemplation, tafakur and tadzakur. Wayang Purwa, with its artistic values, has spiritual education or al-tarbiyah al-rabbaniyah...