Paper The Mystic Experience

A Descriptive and Comparative Analysis
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8428-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 184 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Religious Studies

Explores the human experience of mysticism and looks at it within the spiritual traditions around the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Paper, Jordan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
An Event
General Characteristics of the "Event"
A Name for the Experience
The Mystic Experience in Cultural Context
A Caution to Readers
2. Phenomenology (Descriptive Analysis) of the Mystic Experience
Naive Reports
Reports by "Professional" Mystics
Conclusions
3. The Varieties of Ecstatic Experience
Human Nature and Ecstatic Experiences
Functional Ecstasies
Visions, Lucid Dreams, and Problem-Solving
Dreams
Shamanism
Mediumism
Prophecy Nonfunctional Ecstasies
Unitive Experiences
Pure Consciousness
The Mystic Experience
4. Previous Studies
Philosophical Analyses
Psychological Analyses
Sociological Analyses
Anthropological Analyses
Combined Approaches: Anthropology and Psychology
Biological Analyses
Near-Death Experience Studies
Comparative Religion Studies
5. Ethnohermeneutics I: Non-West
Shamanistic and Mediumistic Traditions
South Asia
The Upanishads
Hinduism
Buddhism
Chinese Religion
6. Ethnohermeneutics II: West
Plotinus
Judaism
Christianity
Catholicism
Orthodoxy
Islam
Modern "Secular" Mysticism
Cosmic Consciousness
Absolute Consciousness 7. Conclusions: The Mystic Experience and Human Nature
A Phenomenological Assessment
Comparative Ethnohermeneutics
Summary
Works Consulted
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jordan Paper is Professor Emeritus of Humanities at York University and Associate Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria. He has written several books, including Offering Smoke: The Sacred Pipe and Native American Religion and The Chinese Way in Religion, Second Edition (coedited with Laurence G. Thompson).