Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge
March 1, 2016
Jules Janssens
3 citations
It is a well-known fact that Ibn Sīnā in the final part of his work al-Ishārāt wa-l-tanbīhāt, Pointers and Reminders, extensively uses a mystical vocabulary. Given this fact some scholars have judged that he in this – in all likelihood rather late – work adheres to a kind of mysticism, either religious or, at least, philosophical. Based on a detailed analysis of some of the most significant...
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies
January 27, 2016
Celia E.T. Kourie
10 citations
Given the plethora of research conducted in the field of spirituality and mysticism over the last 30 years, it is almost a superhuman feat to keep up with the explosion of information. Of necessity, in a limited article of this nature, it is possible to discuss only a few salient aspects of the spirituality and mysticism phenomenon and by so doing contribute to ongoing research in this...
Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience
January 5, 2016
Daniel Reiser
1 citation
In recent years, the phenomenological and comparative approaches to the study of Jewish mysticism have come under criticism. This critique has been focused upon the very concept of “mysticism,” calling into question whether or not different mystical elements in different religious faith traditions may be compared with one another. This perspective is typified in the latest works of Boaz Huss,...
Journal of Hindu-Christian studies
2016
Glenn Young
In his entry for the term “mysticism” in the updated edition of the Encyclopedia of Religion, Peter Moore writes that “the varieties of mystical practice tend to receive less scholarly attention than the varieties of experience or doctrine.”1 Bernard McGinn similarly claims that many studies of mysticism “so emphasize the moment of mystical contact . . . that they neglect the study of the...
Spiritus
2016
Barbara A. Holmes
Reviewed by: African American Female Mysticism: Nineteen-Century Religious Activism by Joy R Barbara A. Holmes (bio) African American Female Mysticism: Nineteen-Century Religious Activism. By Joy R. Bostic, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 179pp. $100.00 Joy Bostic’s work offers unique insights into the lives of black women mystics of the nineteenth century. When most of us hear the word...
Živa Antika
2016
M. Todorovska
The article briefly shows the major points of apophaticism in Pseudo-Dionysius, focusing on his stances of the incomprehensibility of God (the One, the Supreme Cause of everything, Being itself) and the limitations to men's abilities of attaining any proper knowledge about his immeasurable greatness and infinite power.In an attempt at a brief overview of some of the aspects of his apophatic...
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology
December 2015
Ralph Abraham
Is there a world of mathematics above and beyond ordinary reality, as Plato proposed? Or is mathematics a cultural construct? In this short article we speculate on the place of mathematical reality from the perspective of the mystical cosmologies of the ancient traditions of meditation, psychedelics, and divination.
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion
September 3, 2015
Michael Stoeber
6 citations
Abstract The comparative study of mysticism began in the mid-19th century, with the development of the modern meaning of the word, which had begun to be used as a substantive, with the classification of “mystics” in the 17th century. This differed from the traditional Greek Christian use of the adjective mystikos, to qualify rituals, scriptures, sacraments, and theology as “mystical” contexts...
NEXUS The Canadian Student Journal of Anthropology
July 4, 2015
Melody J. Devries
With the onset of 2015, globalization is perhaps one of the most dynamic issues concerning the social sciences. It is critical to map all fields of the human/cultural experience that are susceptible to manifestations of globalization in the growing international tourism industry. In this study I have focused on the evolution of the Peruvian Andean highlands’ massive tourist industry, including...
European Journal for Philosophy of Religion
June 21, 2015
Ryan G. Hornbeck, Robert Eugene Sears
2 citations
This article derives from a paper presented at the Philosophy of Religion and Mysticism Conference hosted by the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, May 22-24, 2014. That paper introduced theories and methods drawn from the ‘cognitive science of religion’ (CSR) and suggested future avenues of research connecting CSR and scholarship on mysticism. Towards these same ends, the present article...