Religions
November 5, 2020
June Mcdaniel
3 citations
On the island of Bali in Indonesia, the traditional Hindu religious leaders are the pedandas, or brahmin high priests. Their religious status is largely based on their mystical states, during which they create the highest and most valuable form of holy water, which is needed for all religious rituals on the island. It is one of the rare examples in world religions where mysticism is not only...
History of psychology
November 1, 2020
Matei Iagher
This article aims at placing Henri Delacroix's (1908) book on the psychology of mysticism in the context of debates in the psychology of religion in the earlier part of the 20th century. I argue that Delacroix's work was authored as part of a wider debate that Delacroix maintained with the American school of the psychology of religion regarding the role of emotions in religious experience. As I...
Вестник Тверского государственного университета. Серия: Философия
October 30, 2020
М. Воронкина
В статье противопоставляется русский мистицизм западному эзотерицизму, сравниваются ключевые характеристики обоих явлений. Русский мистицизм представлен не в качестве очередного «мнемоисторического» нарратива, а как особый философский, духовный и цивилизационный феномен. Доказывается неправомерность безоговорочного включения русских мистиков (Е.П. Блаватской, Г.И. Гурджиева, П.Д. Успенского) в...
SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH
October 28, 2020
Shruti Mishra
This paper deals with idea of mysticism represented in form of Buddhist Philosophy. I will be discussing the writings of Andrew Harvey and Pico Iyer. Both of them are commendable travel writers, they have extensively travelled and wrote about Buddhism. I will be comparing the writings of both and the way they looked at Buddhism and its philosophy for the welfare of people. A Journey in Ladakh...
September 23, 2020
Dmitriy A. Filin, Russia Arts
The purpose of this article is to analyze the content of Plotinus’s apophatic theology. The problem of the limit of human cognition has always been topical in the history of the human thought. The absolute reality acted as such a limit in Platonism. The apophatic aspect was the final step of its cognition. The founder of Neoplatonism systematized the Plato’s teaching about hypostases of the...
مجلة الإحياء
June 30, 2020
لبعل فريدة Lebbal Farida
At time when the image of Islam is maculated by hostility, bigotry and – oftentimesbrutality, Turkish novelist ElifShafak steps up a with The Forty Rules of Love, a novel which juxtaposes the controversial bond between thirteenth century poet and mystic Djalel Eddine Al-Rumi and the ascetic Shams I-Tabrizi on the one hand, with the present-day romance of Ella and Aziz Zahara on the other,...
Diogenes
June 25, 2020
Natalya Mozghovaya
The article is devoted to the analysis of such a spiritual phenomenon in the history of Russian philosophy as its spiritual-academic branch, represented in the ХІХ century by the scientific and pedagogical activity of philosophy professors of four academies of the Russian Empire: St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kiev and Kazan. On the example of the Kiev and Moscow Academies, the unique features of this...
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies
June 23, 2020
M. Nel
10 citations
Western academic theology do not succeed in accounting for the identity and faith culture of African Pentecostals for at least two reasons. In the first place, because as part of the Pentecostal movement it grew from the holiness, divine healing and revivalist movement that went back to Pietism and emphasised a holistic effective spirituality, and secondly, because it links with the holistic...
AUC THEOLOGICA
June 18, 2020
K. Majerova
The German Protestant theologian Dorothee Sölle, who came with the central ideas of relationship and reciprocity in the context of feminist liberation theology, accentuates what is known as the mysticism democratisation project. Within the framework of the project of the democratisation of mysticism, mystical sensitivity as a human constant that all people have without difference is thematised....
The Oxford Handbook of Mystical Theology
February 25, 2020
Bernard Mcginn
This chapter is designed as a broad road map of the development of Christian mystical theology down to the Quietist Controversy at the end of the seventeenth century and the triumph of the Enlightenment, which took a generally negative attitude toward the mystical element in Christianity. It follows the main genealogies, or historically coherent traditions of mystical theology, from the...