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Shofar December 1, 1996 Mark Verman 2 citations
Kabbalah Refracted: Review Essay KABBALAH REFRACTED Review Essay by MarkVerman Depanment of Religion Carleton College 123 Through a SpeculumThat Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism, by ElliotWolfson. Princeton: Princeton UniversityPress, 1994. 452 pp. Elliot Wolfson is arguably the country's premier scholar of Jewish mysticism. Through a Speculum That Shines (hencefonh...
Medieval Feminist Newsletter September 1, 1996 Amy Hollywood
Ulrike Wiethaus' ambitious goal is to make medieval mysticism intellectually accessible to a modem western audience (2).To do this, she draws analogies between modem psychologies open to the existence and significance of "altered states of consciousness" and the accounts of ecstasies and visions within Mechthild of Magdeburg's The Flowing Light of the Godhead.The study is divided into two...
Psychopharmacology September 1996 H Nagayama, J Q Lu
The present study investigated the circadian variation in the behavioral response to the selective 5-HT2A/2C receptor agonist (+/-)-(2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodophenyl)-2-aminopropane hydrochloride (DOI). Rats were subcutaneously injected with DOI at 0000, 0400, 0800, 1200, 1600, or 2000 hours. The wet-dog shake (WDS) response was counted following administration of DOI. A circadian rhythm that peaked...
Historical Papers August 7, 1996 Joanna Dean 1 citation
JOANNA DEAN "The religions of authority are tottering to their fall," the Dean of St. Paul's, W.R. Inge, said in 1905, "but the religion of Spirit is still near the beginning of that triumphant course which Christ foretold for it . .." 1 Three decades later, slightly chastened about the "triumphant course," he continued to distinguish between the faltering religion of authority and the...
Parergon July 1, 1996 Francesca Bussey 1 citation
Reviews 299 function, patron, designer, choice of atelier and cultural milieu are treated very briefly in the concluding chapter. This study of a remarkably individual yet very Byzantine monument will be of enduring value. The photographs are commendably crisp and highhghts from the artificial lighting are kept to a minimum and away from thefigures.Appropriately, an Italian edition has been...
Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses June 1, 1996 Robert K. C. Forman
Professor Janz (SR, 24, 1 [1995]: 77) proposes an explanation of mystical experience based on an analogy with the hermeneutical process of reading a book. While this model has its advantages, it represents an attempt to analyze non-intentional mysticism on the basis of intentional experiences. Such mysticism, an experience of our own consciousness, is very different from thinking and sensing;...
Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses June 1, 1996 Bruce Janz
The hermeneutical and the epistemological paradigms for understanding mystical experience are not easily translated into each other. The hermeneutical model has the advantage in that it shifts the emphasis from explanation to understanding. Mystical experience, namely, the falling away of the factical conditions of human existence and the meeting with Infinite Being, cannot be reduced to...
diacritics June 1, 1996 Amy Hollywood 3 citations
Bataille and Mysticism: A “Dazzling Dissolution” Amy Hollywood (bio) Within Georges Bataille’s texts of the late 1930s and 1940s, in particular those later brought together in the tripartite Atheological Summa, he repeatedly suggests that his primary models for writing and experience are the texts of the Christian and non-Western mystical traditions (often represented, in Bataille, by women’s...
Journal of Managerial Psychology June 1, 1996 Harald S. Harung, Dennis P. Heaton, William W. Graff et al. 37 citations
Investigates higher stages of human development in some of the world’s most accomplished performers. Indicates that far more frequent experiences of a silent, expanded, restfully alert and non‐attached state of heightened awareness characterize those individuals who display outstanding skill and accomplishment in their action. Interprets these findings in the light of the Vedic Psychology of...
The American Historical Review April 1, 1996 Karma Lochrie, Denise N. Baker 30 citations
The first woman known to have written in English, the fourteenth century mystic Julian of Norwich has inspired generations of Christians with her reflections on the motherhood of Jesus, and her assurance that, despite evil, all shall be well. In this book, Denise Baker reconsiders Julian not only as an eloquent and profound visionary but also as an evolving, sophisticated theologian of great...