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Routledge eBooks March 31, 2011 Geoffrey Nelson
Creativity Religion has its origins in certain types of human experience. Those which have to be categorised as religious include both mystical and psychic experiences, as well as those more heavily charged with emotional impressions. They range from inner experiences of at-oneness with God or the Absolute, through feelings of the presence of supernatural beings, to trance experiences and...
March 17, 2011 Fowler’s Model 1 citation
The process of spiritual development may sometimes be incremental, but it does not necessarily occur simply by gradual and additive growth. Often it involves crucial periods in which previous frames of reference are challenged by some very fulfilling “peak” experiences, or by experiences of suffering, grief, or crisis. In the previous chapter several models of psychological health were examined...
Philosophia March 14, 2011 David Woodruff Smith 6 citations
Pike’s phenomenology of mystical experiences articulates sharply where theological content may enter the structure of Christian mystics’ experiences (as characterized in their own words). Here we look to Buddhist (and other) accounts of “pure” or “nibbanic” consciousness attained in experiences of deep meditation. A contemporary “modal” model of inner awareness is considered whereby a form of...
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies March 9, 2011 Celia E.T. Kourie, Alex Kurian 1 citation
In our pluralistic society, the diverse religious traditions offer an opportunity for interreligious dialogue which has as its aim an appreciation of, and respect for, the integrity of individual traditions. Swami Abhishiktananda is a clear example of one who offered an alternative to Christian exclusiveness in his willingness to engage in an inter-spiritual lifestyle in which Eastern and...
NeuroQuantology March 2, 2011 Stanley Krippner, Dustin Dunbar 3 citations
Ecstasy (from the Greek, ekstasis: distraction; derangement; astonishment) is defined by dictionaries as (1) an emotional state so intense that one is carried beyond rational thought or self-control; (2) rapture associated with mystical experience. In this essay, we take the position that “addiction” is a social construct, a term that reflects a societal convention as much or more so that its...
Shofar March 1, 2011 Eliezer Lorne Segal
Reviewed by: The Origins of Jewish Mysticism Eliezer Segal The Origins of Jewish Mysticism, by Peter Schäfer. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009. 398 pp. €99.00. The Mishnah (Hagigah 2:1) identified a number of topics in the rabbinic curriculum that could not be taught openly, among which the most secret was "the work of the chariot," the Ma'aseh Merkavah. It is clear that this esoteric discipline...
The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature March 1, 2011
Margery’s The Book of Margery Kempe redefines women’s corporeality through bodily manifestation of a life. While living through the body, Margery shows that her body can be part of her spiritual experience by emphasizing the physical aspects of her mystical experience. Regarding an access to the spiritual and sacred through her bodily experiences and manifestations as a privileged communication...
Hispania March 1, 2011 Amy Alfieri
Reviewed by: Approaches to Teaching Teresa of Ávila and the Spanish Mystics Amy Alfieri Weber, Alison , ed. Approaches to Teaching Teresa of Ávila and the Spanish Mystics. New York: MLA, 2009. Pp. 297. ISBN 978-1-60329-023-4. Approaches to Teaching Teresa of Ávila and the Spanish Mystics, at almost 300 pages, is one of the longest editions in the Approaches to Teaching World Literature series,...
Toronto Journal of Theology March 1, 2011 Dietmar Neufeld
Reviewed by: Paul in Ecstasy: The Neurobiology of the Apostle’s Life and Thought Dietmar Neufeld Colleen Shantz . Paul in Ecstasy: The Neurobiology of the Apostle’s Life and Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. v + 267. Cloth, US$64.00. ISBN 978-0-521-86610-1. In a provocative, long-overdue correction of a primarily cognicentric approach to Paul, Shantz charts a finely...
Spiritus March 1, 2011 Ann Gleig
Reviewed by: The Participatory Turn: Thinking Beyond the Philosophies of Consciousness and Constructivism in the Study of Religion Ann Gleig (bio) The Participatory Turn: Thinking Beyond the Philosophies of Consciousness and Constructivism in the Study of Religion. Edited by Jorge N. Ferrer and Jacob H. Sherman. Albany: SUNY Press, 2008. 396 pp. $34.95 If we recognize the radically creative...