Religion and Spirituality Across Cultures
2014
Ralph W. Hood
1 citation
Positive psychology and the psychology of religion share an interest in understanding positive emotions and their contribution to human flourishing. The focus of this chapter is upon ecstatic and mystical states framed within Fisher’s model of ergotropic and trophotropic arousal allowing for a neurophysiological correlate of two states of consciousness widely recognized in the psychology of...
December 30, 2013
C. Hoffmann
: Georges Bataille and Hubert Aquin both explore a mystical experience displaying strong similarities, related to what Roger Caillois called « left sacred », that is the impure, malefic sacred, which is accessible by transgression and corresponds to the privileged moment of unity between people. For Bataille, God is absent, even dead : Lamma sabachtani is no longer a question but an assertion...
Arxiu d Etnografia de Catalunya
December 11, 2013
Jose Reche Navarro
Aunque hay mucho escrito sobre el mundo de la llamada new age o “nebulosa místico-esotérica”, no existe nada en lo referente a su distribución espacial en una ciudad. Este artículo trata de hacer una descripción y análisis de estas actividades, así como de los locales en los que tienen lugar, en el contexto de la ciudad de Tarragona. Para ello, se establece en primer lugar un análisis de los...
November 14, 2013
Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo
Mary Kept These Things, Pondering Them in Her Heart:Breastfeeding as Contemplative Practice and Source for Theology Elizabeth Gandolfo (bio) Throughout the history of Christianity, women have engaged in sustained theological reflection on experiences—of God, themselves, and the world—that they have undergone in the course of practices of contemplation. Contemplative women of the past were not...
ULUL ALBAB Jurnal Studi Islam
September 16, 2013
Umar Faruq Thohir
9 citations
Sufism is the unique esoteric way to close to Allah as The Creator of this universe. Sufism teaches its scholars to purify their souls from the sins or something prohibited by Allah, and fulfill them with a good actions and characters. Sufism also coaches its scholars to base their actions with love to Allah, since love to Allah will guide scholars to love all Allah's creations such as like...
July 1, 2013
Kerri Michalica, H. Hunt
This study examined the commonalities and the differences between creativity and the schizophrenia spectrum. The variables measured were creativity, schizotypy, absorption, mystical experiences, spatial ability, balance, positive and negative presence, and neuroticism. Three community groups were recruited: 31 artists, 10 people with schizophrenia, and 31 comparisons matched for gender and age...
Modern Theology
July 1, 2013
Maria Clara Bingemer
AbstractOur current context is a “moving” and unstable one. We are facing not only a time of change, but what Pope Benedict XVI terms “an epochal change.” The impact of this transformation upon religion is unmistakable. In this article I reflect on one aspect of this impact: the one that affects and transforms the experience of God, also called mystical experience. I explore the concept of...
University Press of Mississippi eBooks
June 24, 2013
Robert E. Jewett, John Shelton Lawrence
This chapter presents an excerpt from The Myth of the American Superhero (2002) by Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence. It discusses the proliferation of superheroes following the success of Superman comics in 1938; the connection of superhero materials with the American religious heritage; and the emergence of a new mystical consciousness shaped by the American monomyth.
European Journal for Philosophy of Religion
June 21, 2013
Kate Kirkpatrick
Jean-Paul sartre is rarely discussed in the philosophy of religion. In 2009, however, Jerome Gellman broke the silence, publishing an article in this journal in which he argued that the source of sartre’s atheism was neither philosophical nor existential, but mystical. Drawing from several of sartre’s works – including Being and Nothingness, Words, and a 1943 review entitled ‘A New mystic’ – I...
June 17, 2013
L. Bailey, J. Yates
The Near Death Experience: A Reader is the most comprehensive collection of NDE cases and interpretations ever assembled. This book encompasses a broad range of disciplines: psychological researchers discuss cognitive models and Jungian theories of meaningful archetypal phenomena; the biological perspectivedescribes how brains near death may produce soothing endorphins, optical illusions, and...