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Routledge eBooks October 3, 2018 Milad Milani 1 citation
Gnosis in the sense of ma&s;rifa , the soul&s;s experience of the divine that is related to what is known as "mystical experience," is directly relevant to classic Sufism. The special knowledge that is the product of mystical experience can be agreed to account for gnosis in classic Sufism, this being a knowledge that is available to all who seek a personal and direct knowledge of God. The term...
Routledge eBooks October 3, 2018 Mark Sedgwick 1 citation
Gnosis in the sense of marifa , the soul&s;s experience of the divine that is related to what some call the "mystical experience," has always been important in Sufism. Gnosis has been understood by some Western Sufis to mean not the soul&s;s experience of the divine but a hidden system of knowledge and practice of which Sufism is one instance. The term "gnosis" is widely used among both Western...
Routledge eBooks October 3, 2018 Garry Winston Trompf
The proposition that tribal or smaller-scale traditional societies yield Gnostic ideas may seem absurd, especially considering the kind of elaborate speculations post-War scholars have discussed since the Nag Hammadi finds. The connection with gnosticism has been made because of initiated specialists&s; negotiations through "other worlds," and because initiations can be paralleled to access to...
The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice October 2, 2018 S. Alves
ABSTRACT Despite an undoubted awareness of the intangible aspects of culture in heritage studies, scholars continue to base their understanding of intangible heritage according to rationalist theories of perception, which accept only a single mode of perception—that which is bound to the empirical, sensorial and terrestrial world. How are we to appropriately value and safeguard practices such...
Harvard Theological Review October 1, 2018 Tanja Werthmann 2 citations
Abstract The study explores the character and meaning of the imagery of the kiss in theZoharas an expression of dynamic union. In order to demonstrate the formation of a specific structure of ideas and their dynamics within Kabbalistic theosophy, theZoharicimagery found in the pericopeTerumahhas been situated here within the context of numerous sources, from which theZohar, through direct or...
Journal of the Bible and its Reception October 1, 2018 Ann Conway‐Jones 3 citations
Abstract The “place of God” is an oxymoron, implying a spatial confinement of the transcendent deity. Gregory of Nyssa calls it “the greatest paradox of all.” It is a biblical image, applied above all to the tabernacle/temple, which inspired a long afterlife of fruitful reflection in both Jewish and Christian traditions. This paper focusses on the interpretations of the “place of God” in the...
History of the Human Sciences October 1, 2018 Matthew Drage 6 citations
In this article I examine an important episode in the growth of ‘mindfulness’ as a biomedical modality in Britain: the formation and establishment of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) by John Teasdale and his colleagues Mark Williams and Zindel Segal. My study, focusing on Teasdale’s contribution, combines ethnographic, oral historical and archival research to understand how...
Avant: Journal of Philosophical-Interdisciplinary Vanguard September 30, 2018 A. Yampolskaya 1 citation
In this paper I compare how Michel Henry and Henri Maldiney interpret Kandinsky’s heritage. Henry’s phenomenology is based on a distinction between two main modes of manifestation: the ordinary one, that is, the manifestation of the world, and the “manifestation of life.” For him, Kandinsky’s work provides a paradigmatic example of the second, more original mode of manifestation, which is free...
Argument September 26, 2018 Krzysztof Jakubczak
Seeing of emptiness and mystical experience — the case of Madhyamaka: The problem of Buddhist religiosity is one of the most classic problems of Buddhist studies. A particular version of this issue is the search for mystical experience in Buddhism. This is due to the conviction that mystical experience is the essence of religious experience itself. The discovery of such an alleged experience...
September 24, 2018 John A. Saliba
The current debate on the psychological effects of cult involvement is not new in the history of the relationship between psychiatry and religion. There is a definite tendency among psychologists and psychiatrists to evaluate new religious movements or sects as more harmful to the individual&s;s mental health than traditional Judeo-Christian religious beliefs. Other areas of the psychology of...