Mystical Experience and Religious Doctrine: An Investigation of the Study of Mysticism in World ReligionsSinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline. |
Contents
Preface vii | 1 |
The Theory of R C | 23 |
The Theory | 69 |
The Theory | 92 |
A Comparative Analysis | 120 |
A Philosophical | 157 |
Conclusion | 181 |
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Mystical Experience and Religious Doctrine: An Investigation of the Study of ... Philip C. Almond No preview available - 1982 |
Common terms and phrases
absolute Advaita Vedanta Ahnung anatta appears argues Atman attained Bhagavad-Gita Brahman chapter characteristics Christian mysticism conceptual conflicting religious truth consciousness contentless criteria doctrinal schemes Eckhart ence essence Evelyn Underhill example extrovertive experience Fakhry Firstly Hinduism ibid identity in difference incorporated interpretation ineffability introvertive Islam jhana model five modes of expression monistic monistic experience mystical ex mystical strand mystical utterance nature of mystical Nevertheless Nibbana Ninian Smart notion numen numinous experience numinous strand object Otto Otto's panenhenic experience panenhenic modes pantheism passage perience phenomenological philosophy Plotinus possible question Radhakrishnan reality reflection relationship between mystical religious experience religious truth claims Rudolf Otto Sankhya sense Smart Smartian soul Stace study of mysticism terpretation texts theistic experience theistic mystical experience theological Theravada Buddhism thesis tical tical experience tradition transcending types of mystical unanimity of mystical Underhill undifferentiated unity University Upanishad varieties of mystical W. T. Stace writes Zaehner