Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality
September 1, 2025
Hansol Goo
Abstract:This essay explores the intersection of sacramentality and mysticism in McGinn’s Modern Mystics, particularly his emphasis on God’s transforming presence as central to mystical experience. Mysticism, like the sacraments, is marked by divine encounter, marginality, and mediated presence. In light of McGinn’s use of “presence” and figures like Simone Weil and Michel de Certeau,...
Culture & Psychology
August 28, 2025
William B. Parsons
This essay is designed to illumine Sudhir Kakar’s contributions with regard to psychoanalytic theorizing about mysticism and culture. It proceeds in five interrelated parts: (1) presents a broad definitional and comparative context with respect to the academically contested term “mysticism”; (2) explores the initial entry of the psychoanalytic engagement with mysticism (i.e., Freud’s famous...
Religions
August 27, 2025
Jinjing Zhu
This paper examines the four-stage process of mystical experience in the Huzi and Lady Yu allegories of the Zhuangzi. It begins with a lifeless stage enabled by the mystic’s purgation of the world and the self. It is followed by a revitalization stage in which Oneness is experienced not only as the introvertive experience of the self but also as the extrovertive truth of reality. It is then...
Anglican theological review
July 29, 2025
C. Bynum
Responding to Simon Critchley’s recent book Mysticism (2024), which engages with her earlier Christian Materiality (2011), Caroline Bynum compares two well-known mystics, Julian of Norwich and Annie Dillard, who lived six hundred years apart, and argues that to both the material world—nature, conceptions of it, and art in some way reflecting it—was key in her visions of what lay beyond that...
Journal of Contemplative Studies
July 23, 2025
Patricia M. Zimmerman
What does a particular place and its unique yet integrated life-force do for our lamentation amid ecocide? Do we suppose that nature mourns for us? Restores us to full resurrection? I avoid either/or solutions as at best a misplaced romantic optimism and at worst escapism enabling capitalist exploitation. Rather, I draw upon Christian mystics Julian of Norwich, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and John...
The Journal of Healthcare Ethics & Administration
July 3, 2025
Micaela Plantinga, Alexandre A. Martins
Society’s deep divisions, fueled by individualism, competition, consumerism, rigid ideologies, and limited dialogue, have impacted health care, leading to weakened connections between providers and patients. In the U.S., heavy reliance on medical technology and the rise of AI have further eroded these intersubjective bonds, reducing empathetic engagement in care. To address this challenge, the...
The Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Series “Philology”
July 1, 2025
Kateryna Dubinina
The relevance of this topic is determined by the scientific novelty of the research approach to studying the dramaturgy of M. Maeterlinck, his worldview ideas based on mysticism, as well as the need to trace the influence of the playwright's symbolism on contemporary culture, contemporary theater, and literature. This article attempts to analyze and trace how the concepts of mysticism became...
Jurnal Javanologi
June 30, 2025
P. Purwadi
2 citations
This article explores the mystical philosophy of Javanese poet Kyai Yasadipura and its relevance as a cultural foundation for achieving world peace. The study aims to examine how Javanese mystical values, as expressed in Yasadipura’s literary works, can offer ethical and spiritual insights for contemporary global challenges. Using a hermeneutic qualitative method, this research interprets...
Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society
June 18, 2025
Martin Eleven
This article examines Wilfred R. Bion’s psychoanalysis in its unique interplay between epistemology and mysticism. It then explores the potential of Bion’s concept of O for an alternative understanding of religion within psychoanalysis and beyond. Rather than seeing religion as an archaic relic of human history, Bion makes it possible to understand the encounters with the numinous (the...
Jaqfi Jurnal Aqidah dan Filsafat Islam
June 17, 2025
Dani Ramdani, Amsal Bakhtiar
This article aims to analyze the dimension of mysticism in Ibn Sina’s system of thought-an Islamic rationalist thinker who in several of his works shows deep spiritual-mystical tendencies. Using the approach of falsafi Sufism and a qualitative method based on literature study, this article examines major works such as Al-Isharat wa al-Tanbihat, Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, Risalah fi Mahiyyah al-Shalat and...