Mystical Society

Author : Philip Wexler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429978401

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In Mystical Society Philip Wexler, a well-known critical theorist with a background in social psychology and a special interest in spirituality, examines the revitalization of spirituality manifesting itself in society and in education. Describing what he calls "cultural changes toward the sacred," he documents a cultural shift, brought about by technological and societal changes, toward a new mysticism. Wexler explores the meaning for this new spirituality for our daily lives, for social theory, and for education. From the pervasiveness of a spiritual vernacular to the integration of spiritual practices into our highly individualized and technologized lives, Wexler lays out the evidence for a growing movement, and then draws parallels to periods of mystical revitalization from the past. In the course of this discussion, he draws on the work of Marx, Weber, and Durkheim, as well as from contemporary social theory.

Author : Rhett McLaughlin,Link Neal
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780751570564

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Rhett & Link's Book of Mythicality by Rhett McLaughlin,Link Neal Pdf

"Internetainers" Rhett & Link met in first grade when their teacher made them miss recess for writing profanity on their desks, and they have been best friends ever since. Today, their daily YouTube talk show, Good Mythical Morning, is the most-watched daily talk show on the Internet, and nearly 12 million subscribers tune in to see the guys broadcast brainy trivia, wild experiments, and hilarious banter (not to mention the occasional cereal bath). Now the award-winning comedians are finally bringing their "Mythical" world to the printed page in their first book. A hilarious blend of autobiography, trivia, and advice, Rhett & Link's Book of Mythicality: A Field Guide to Curiosity, Creativity, and Tomfoolery will offer twenty ways to add "Mythicality" to your life, including: Eat Something That Scares You Make a Bold Hair Choice Invent Something Ridiculous Say "I Love You" Like It's Never Been Said Speak at Your Own Funeral The goal of these offbeat prompts? To learn new things, laugh more often, and earn a few grown-up merit badges along the way. Heartfelt and completely original, this book will be the perfect gift for anyone looking for a fresh dose of humor and fun.

Author : PHILIP. WEXLER,Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367098695

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Mystical Society by PHILIP. WEXLER,Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

Author : Selwyn E. Phipps
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781250213433

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The Magical Unicorn Society Official Handbook by Selwyn E. Phipps Pdf

A vibrantly illustrated official guide to everything unicorn-related, from the Magical Unicorn Society. After centuries of mystery, the mythical Magical Unicorn Society has published its official handbook. These learned lovers of unicorns have created a veritable treasure trove of unicorn lore—the facts, the fiction, the where, why and what of these elusive creatures. Discover where unicorns really live around the world, how to find them, and what they eat Learn how to look after them, what powers they have, how to tempt them, train them, and even ride them, and so much more. With breathtaking artwork from Helen Dardik and Harry and Zanna Goldhawk, this special book is the ultimate gift for true believers.

Author : Richard H. Jones
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438461199

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Philosophy of Mysticism by Richard H. Jones Pdf

A comprehensive exploration of the philosophical issues raised by mysticism. This work is a comprehensive study of the philosophical issues raised by mysticism. Mystics claim to experience reality in a way not available in normal life, a claim which makes this phenomenon interesting from a philosophical perspective. Richard H. Jones’s inquiry focuses on the skeleton of beliefs and values of mysticism: knowledge claims made about the nature of reality and of human beings; value claims about what is significant and what is ethical; and mystical goals and ways of life. Jones engages language, epistemology, metaphysics, science, and the philosophy of mind. Methodological issues in the study of mysticism are also addressed. Examples of mystical experience are drawn chiefly from Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta, but also from Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Daoism. “This is a significant extension of the seminal work by Walter Stace, Mysticism and Philosophy. That work has stimulated much literature, all of which Jones manages to review here. He critically extends Stace’s universal core and embeds it in a sophisticated discussion of the extent, range, and metaphysical implications of mysticism.” — Ralph W. Hood, Jr., coauthor of The Psychology of Religion: An Empirical Approach

Author : Philip Wexler
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-27
Category : Education
ISBN : UVA:X004473001

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Mystical Society by Philip Wexler Pdf

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Prologue: A New Society -- Religion, Sociology, Education -- Interaction: Structure, Discourse, and Being -- Mysticism: Analysis and Utopia -- 2 Society: Informationalism, Mysticism, Revitalization -- Informational Society -- Religion and Mysticism -- Revitalization -- Examples -- 3 Self: Reselfing -- Immortal Self -- Eliade and Hasidism -- Reselfing -- Classical Sociology: Religion, Power, and Self -- Postmodern Self in Society: Melucci and Foucault -- A Typology of Reselfing -- Self and Structure -- 4 Criticism: From Culture to Being -- Lasch: Social Criticism and the Sacred -- Gnosticism and the New Age -- Social Ethic of Being -- Frankfurt School -- Embodied Criticism -- Phantasms and Energy -- 5 Social Theory: From Society to Cosmos -- The Social -- Social Energy -- Beyond Dualism -- Reintegration -- Education As Embodied Mediation -- From the Social to the Cosmic -- 6 Education: From Postmodernism to Ethnography of Being -- Educational Research -- Context of Educational Research -- Mystical Education -- School Ethnography of Being -- Prophetic Education -- 7 Social Interaction: From Alienation to Mysticism -- Destruction -- Creation -- American Religion: Drugs, Nature, Immanence -- William James: Over the Threshold to Mystical Revitalization -- Hindu Tantrism: New/Old Dynamics of Embodied Mystical Mediation -- Hasidism: Individual Redemption and Collective Messianism -- Secular Mysticism -- 8 Epilogue: Mystical Sociology and Beyond -- Mystical Sociology -- Self -- Social Interaction -- Society -- Pedagogy of Revitalization -- Forgotten Things -- References -- Index

Author : Dion Fortune
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000-09-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781609255503

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The Mystical Qabalah by Dion Fortune Pdf

Publisher’s Note: A new edition has replaced this book under the our Weiser Classics Edition, ISBN 9781578637522. This Weiser Classics edition is newly re-typeset and include a new foreword by Judika Illes and a new afterword by Stuart R. Harrop, co-director of the Society of Inner Light (founded in 1924 by Dion Fortune). Dion Fortune's classic, The Mystical Qabalah, explores all aspects of the Qabalah, including the esoteric sciences of astrology and tarot, which form the basis of the Western Mystery Traditions. It provides a key to the practical working of this mystical system for both novice and initiate alike.

Author : Jerome Gellman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351786638

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Mystical Experience of God by Jerome Gellman Pdf

This title was first published in 2001: Engaging contemporary discussion concerning the validity of mystical experiences of God, Jerome Gellman presents the best evidential case in favor of validity and its implications for belief in God. Gellman vigorously defends the coherence of the concept of a mystical experience of God against philosophical objections, and evaluates attempts to provide alternative explanations from sociology and neuropsychology. He then carefully examines feminist objections to male philosophers' treatments of mystical experience of God and to the traditional hierarchal concept of God. Gellman finds none of the objections decisive, and concludes that while the initial evidential case is not rationally compelling for some, it can be rationally compelling for others. Offering important new perspectives on the evidential value of experiences of God, and the concept of God more broadly, this book will appeal to a wide range of readers including those with an interest in philosophy of religion, religious studies, mysticism and epistemology.

Author : Ashim Dutta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000473049

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Mystic Modernity by Ashim Dutta Pdf

This is a transnational and bilingual investigation of the cross-fertilisation of mystical religiosity and modern poetical imagination in the works of the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore and the Irish poet W. B. Yeats. The book demonstrates how their commitments to transnational mysticism deeply form and inform the modernist literary projects of these poets as well as their understanding of cultural modernity. Although its primary interest lies in their poetry and poetics, the monograph also includes some of their relevant prose works. This study begins with a close look at and around the phase of 1912-1913, when Yeats and Tagore met over the collection of the latter’s English translations of his spiritual verses, Gitanjali, and took mutual interests in each other’s works and cultural significances. The monograph then expands on both sides of that phase, selectively covering the whole career of the poets in its exploration of their parallel mystic-modern cultural-poetical projects.

Author : Gary Lachman
Publisher : TarcherPerigee
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780399161995

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Jung the Mystic by Gary Lachman Pdf

Bold and compact, this new biography of Carl Jung fills a gap in the understanding of the pioneering psychiatrist by focusing on the occult and mystical dimension of Jung's life and work, a critical but frequently misunderstood facet of his career.

Author : Matthijs Bos, van den
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789047401759

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Mystic Regimes by Matthijs Bos, van den Pdf

Mystic Regimes is a social-scientific and Iranological study of two Iranian, Shi‘ite Sufi orders in the twentieth century. It studies their comparative social development in relation to political regimes and explores the cultural repertoires that Sufis have used to cope with these. The introductory part examines the interpretation and the development, until the end of the Qajar era, of Iranian Sufism. The second part explores Sufism in the Pahlavi era. The third part deals with the Sufi orders in the Islamic Republic. The fourth part provides afterthoughts on the relations between Sufi cultural repertoires and civil society. Because of its unique archival and field material, Mystic Regimes is especially important for scholars in Iranian and Sufi studies.

Author : Trenton Lee Stewart
Publisher : Chicken House
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781909489257

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The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart Pdf

When an advert appears in the newspaper for children to take part in a secret mission, children everywhere sit a series of odd tests. In the end, just Reynie, Kate, Sticky and Constance succeed. They have three things in common: they are honest, talented and orphans. They must go undercover and work as a team to save themselves, but also the world.

Author : Robert D. Flanagan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666705058

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The Letters of an Unexpected Mystic by Robert D. Flanagan Pdf

The apostle Peter is a pillar of the church whose writing has been overlooked until recently when scholarship remedied this gap, significantly elevating Peter’s letters. However, one critical area has been omitted. Within the Petrine writing is a robust, empowered, and beautiful mystical theology, which makes Peter an unexpected but vital Christian mystic. In exploring his love of artwork, German theologian and priest Romano Guardini developed the Threefold Seeing, which has been brought to light by Yvonne Dohna Schlobitten of the Pontificate Gregorian University. His unique method of viewing the artist, artwork, and observer develops a way of encountering the world and word. Instead of looking at the world or the biblical text through separate vantage points, the Threefold Seeing integrates all disciplines under greater view of God, the artist of all creation. The Letters of an Unexpected Mystic employs Guardini’s Threefold Seeing to encounter the mystic Peter and the Petrine mystical theology. The result is a book that provides its readers with a means to become the Christian Karl Rahner wrote about in 1971: “The devout Christian of the future will either be a ‘mystic,’ one who has ‘experienced’ something, or he will cease to be anything at all.”

Author : June O. Leavitt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199827848

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The Mystical Life of Franz Kafka by June O. Leavitt Pdf

June O. Leavitt offers a fascinating examination of the mystical in Franz Kafka's life and writings, showing that Kafka's understanding of the occult was not only a product of his own clairvoyant experiences but of the age in which he lived.

Author : Philip C. Almond
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110823981

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Mystical Experience and Religious Doctrine by Philip C. Almond Pdf

Sinceits 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.