Philosophy East and West
July 1, 2023
Grzegorz L. Polak
Abstract:The Nikāyas contain several apophatic descriptions of a state of cessation that occurs during the life of an individual. Furthermore, some texts suggest that this cessation paradoxically coincides with liberating insight. This article attempts to draw out philosophical implications of these passages and to reconstruct the ideas serving as their basis. To make better sense of these...
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
June 1, 2023
Justine M. Bakker
9 citations
Abstract Since 2001, visual artist Ellen Gallagher has been working on “Watery Ecstatic,” an ongoing, expansive project that depicts real and imaginary underwater life through drawings, films, reliefs, and paintings. Thus far, this series—indeed, Gallagher’s oeuvre—has not been studied by scholars of religion. Arguing that the series provokes an extended conversation about mysticism,...
Scientific Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Science
May 27, 2023
Shafiu Alidu
This research paper delves into the different conceptions of human nature and the role of individuals in society as presented by Nietzsche's Last Man, Rawls' Democratic Man and the Perfect Man in Sufism. The objective of this paper is to conduct a comparative analysis of the philosophical works of the two individuals, with a focus on their perspectives on the fundamental aspects of human...
May 24, 2023
Zsuzsanna Szugyiczki
A modern misztikát a kortárs kutatások gyakran "zavarosnak" és "felszínesnek" nevezik. Ezek a negatív jelzők különösen akkor szembetűnőek, amikor a modern misztikát a misztika ‘klasszikus’ vagy ‘tradicionális’ változatával hasonlítják össze. Ezek alapján úgy tűnik, hogy a modern jelenségek nem felelnek meg azoknak a magas követelményeknek, amelyeket a tudósok a misztika tradicionális...
May 23, 2023
This book explores Federico García Lorca’s late poetry and drama within its context of mysticism. Lorca’s singular language reveals compelling evidence of innate spiritual potential, influenced by poets from Christian, Sufi, Buddhist, and other mystic traditions, from his earliest works to its culmination in the technical mastery of his last poems. Guided by musicality and polyvalence, close...
Communications in Humanities Research
May 17, 2023
Kun-Yuan Li, Ruoyu Li, Manxi Liu et al.
William Butler Yeats is the most famous poet in the history of modern Irish literature. He is called the greatest poet of our time by T.S Eliot. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. He has a strong interest in mysticism and has made unremitting exploration of it throughout his life. Mysticism is an important source of Yeatss life creation. From the early collection of Irish...
The Heythrop Journal
May 16, 2023
Edda Wolff
2 citations
This essay argues that a negative hermeneutics, i.e. , a hermeneutics that takes its starting point from the experience of gaps, failures, and limits, is a suitable lens for the study of mysticism. It uses the concept of travail of the negative, which focuses on the dynamics of a continuous ‘unsaying’ and ‘subverting’ of traditional expressions of faith and religious practice, to explore the...
Religious Studies
April 14, 2023
R. Cross
Abstract This article offers some reflections on Christina Van Dyke's Hidden Wisdom, using the opportunity to make some suggestions as to possible lines of influence between the world of scholastic theology and that of the female medieval mystics in what Van Dyke considers their ‘annihilationist’ mode: that the goal of the spiritual life is transformation into God in some sense.
Naomi Mitchison
March 31, 2023
Imogen Woodberry
This chapter examines ideas of socialist self-fashioning in Naomi Mitchison’s work, arguing that she is symptomatic of a tendency within interwar progressive politics that connected social reform with the cultivation of the self. The first part traces her involvement with the public intellectual Gerald Heard, examining the way in which she was influenced by his ideas of the need to expand human...
Interpretation A Journal of Bible and Theology
March 22, 2023
Diana L. Villegas
1 citation
Mysticism and spirituality have acquired broad, interdisciplinary meanings. In this essay I return to the early Christian origins of mysticism to understand the meaning of this experience as a dimension of Christian spirituality. After addressing definitions of spirituality in our pluralistic culture, I argue that mysticism should be an essential part of Christian spirituality.