Laude Shimmering Mirrors

Reality and Appearance in Contemplative Metaphysics East and West
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6683-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

A study of comparative metaphysics that explores the concepts of Reality and Appearance and their relevance to contemporary religious consciousness.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Laude, Patrick

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Shimmering Reality: Contemplative and Mystical Concepts of Relativity

2. Christian and Buddhist Insights into a Metaphysics of Salvation

3. On the Good beyond Good and Evil

4. On Hindu Bhedabheda and Sufi Barzakh

5. Knowing the Unknowable: Upaya and Gods of Belief

6. Transmutation, the Sacred Word, and the Feminine

Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick Laude is Professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He is the author of several books, including Pathways to an Inner Islam: Massignon, Corbin, Guénon, and Schuon and (with Jean-Baptiste Aymard) Frithjof Schuon: Life and Teachings, both published by SUNY Press.