The Immediacy Of Mystical Experience In The European Tradition

Author : Miklós Vassányi,Enikő Sepsi,Anikó Daróczi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319450698

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The Immediacy of Mystical Experience in the European Tradition by Miklós Vassányi,Enikő Sepsi,Anikó Daróczi Pdf

This volume examines mystical experiences as portrayed in various ways by “authors” such as philosophers, mystics, psychoanalysts, writers, and peasant women. These “mystical authors” have, throughout the ages, attempted to convey the unsayable through writings, paintings, or oral stories. The immediate experience of God is the primary source and ultimate goal of these mystical expressions. This experience is essentially ineffable, yet all mystical authors, either consciously or unconsciously, feel an urge to convey what they have undergone in the moments of rapture. At the same time they are in the role of intermediaries: the goal of their self-expression – either written, painted or oral – is to make others somehow understand or feel what they have experienced, and to lead others toward the spiritual goal of human life. This volume studies the mystical experiences and the way they have been described or portrayed in West-European culture, from Antiquity to the present, from an interdisciplinary perspective, and approaches the concept of “immediate experience” in various ways.

Author : Leslie Stein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429829666

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Working with Mystical Experiences in Psychoanalysis by Leslie Stein Pdf

A mystical experience, no matter what else, is a subjective occurrence in the psyche. However, when it appears in the psychoanalytic consulting room, its origin, content, and meaning are unknowable. Yet it is there in the room, and it must be addressed. It is not a minor illusion but rather one that requires attention as its occurrence may lead to a profound alteration of consciousness and, as Carl Jung suggests, a cure for neurosis. Leslie Stein interviewed twenty-nine mystics in order to understand the origin, progression, phasing, emotions, and individual variations of a mystical experience in order to make sense of how it should be addressed, the appropriate analytic attitude in the face of a mystery, the way to work with its content, and its psychological meaning. In doing so, he uncovered that there may be specific development markers that create a proclivity to be receptive to such an experience that has clinical significance for psychoanalysis.

Author : Louise Nelstrop
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000691085

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On Deification and Sacred Eloquence by Louise Nelstrop Pdf

This book considers the place of deification in the writings of Julian of Norwich and Richard Rolle, two of the fourteenth-century English Mystics. It argues that, as a consequence of a belief in deification, both produce writing that is helpfully viewed as sacred eloquence. The book begins by discussing the nature of deification, employing Norman Russell’s typology. It explores the realistic and ethical approaches found in the writings of several Early Greek Fathers, including Irenaeus of Lyons, Cyril of Alexandria, Origen, and Evagrius Ponticus, as well as engaging with the debate around whether deification is a theological idea found in the West across its history. The book then turns its attention to Julian and Rolle, arguing that both promote forms of deification: Rolle offering a primarily ethical approach, while Julian’s approach is more realistic. Finally, the book addresses the issue of sacred eloquence, arguing that both Rolle and Julian, in some sense, view their words as divinely inspired in ways that demand an exegetical response that is para-biblical. Offering an important perspective on a previously understudied area of mysticism and deification, this book will be of interest to scholars of mysticism, theology, and Middle English religious literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004439573

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Hymns, Homilies and Hermeneutics in Byzantium by Anonim Pdf

In Hymns, Homilies and Hermeneutics the authors explore the sacred stories, affective scripts and salvific songs which were the literature of Byzantine liturgical communities and provide a window into lived Christianity in this period.

Author : Éva Pócs
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781527526235

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Body, Soul, Spirits and Supernatural Communication by Éva Pócs Pdf

This book provides a nuanced picture of the notions of body and soul held by the peoples of Europe through the soul concepts associated with the Judeo-Christian tradition and other religions and denominations; and the alternative traditions preserved alongside Christianity in folklore collections, linguistic and literary records. The studies also emphasize the connections between these notions and beliefs related to death and the dead, as well as questions of communication between the human world and the spirit world. The essays here focus on the roles notions of the soul and the spirit world play in the everyday life, religion and mentality of various communities; their folklore and literary representations, as well as the narrative metaphors, motifs, topoi and genres of ideas about the soul and about supernatural communication, along with questions of the relationship between narratives and religious notions. This book will appeal to researchers and students of religion, mythology, folklore and the anthropology of religion, as well as general readers interested in the humanities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487537753

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The Reception of Northrop Frye by Anonim Pdf

The widespread opinion is that Northrop Frye’s influence reached its zenith in the 1960s and 1970s, after which point he became obsolete, his work buried in obscurity. This almost universal opinion is summed up in Terry Eagleton’s 1983 rhetorical question, "Who now reads Frye?" In The Reception of Northrop Frye, Robert D. Denham catalogues what has been written about Frye – books, articles, translations, dissertations and theses, and reviews – in order to demonstrate that the attention Frye’s work has received from the beginning has progressed at a geomantic rate. Denham also explores what we can discover once we have a fairly complete record of Frye’s reception in front of us – such as Hayden White’s theory of emplotments applied to historical writing and Byron Almén’s theory of musical narrative. The sheer quantity of what has been written about Frye reveals that the only valid response to Eagleton’s rhetorical question is "a very large and growing number," the growth being not incremental but exponential.

Author : Enikő Sepsi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000453324

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Poetic Images, Presence, and the Theater of Kenotic Rituals by Enikő Sepsi Pdf

This book explores the interrelation of contemporary French theatre and poetry. Using the pictorial turn in the various branches of art and science, its observable features, and the theoretical framework of the conceptual metaphor, this study seeks to gather together the divergent manners in which French poetry and theatre address this turn. Poetry in space and theatricality of poetry are studied alongside theatre, especially to the performative aspect of the originally theological concept of "kenosis". In doing so the author attempts to make use of the theological concept of kenosis, of central importance in Novarina’s oeuvre, for theatrical and dramatological purposes. Within poetic rituals, kenotic rituals are also examined in the book in a few theatrical practices – János Pilinszky and Robert Wilson, Jerzy Grotowski and Eugenio Barba – facilitating a better understanding of Novarina’s works. Accompanied by new English translations in the appendices, this is the first English language monograph related to the French essayist, dramaturg and director Valère Novarina’s theatre, and will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and literature studies.

Author : Éva Pócs
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527525795

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The Magical and Sacred Medical World by Éva Pócs Pdf

This collection of papers explores the sacred and magical aspects of ethno-medicine. The subject area is marked out by the points of connection between religious anthropology, ethno-medicine and medical anthropology, focusing on topics such as magical and religious concepts of health and disease, causes of disease, religious and magical averting and healing rites, healing gods, saints and, last but not least, the role that these play in the society, religion, mentality and everyday life of a community, as well as their various representations in folklore, literature or art. This volume includes, without restrictions of a methodological, temporal or geographical nature, works from the fields of folklore studies, anthropology, cultural history, comparative historical and textual philology, as well as research findings using the latest methods of analysis in textual folklore or based on archival research or fieldwork in or outside of Europe. This book will appeal to researchers and students of religion, folklore, and medical anthropology, as well as general readers interested in the humanities and cultural history.

Author : Jordan Paper
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791484289

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The Mystic Experience by Jordan Paper Pdf

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

Author : Warren Breckman,Peter E. Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107097780

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The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 2, The Twentieth Century by Warren Breckman,Peter E. Gordon Pdf

An authoritative and comprehensive survey of the major themes, thinkers, and movements in modern European intellectual history.

Author : Peter E. Gordon,Warren Breckman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108645171

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The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 2, The Twentieth Century by Peter E. Gordon,Warren Breckman Pdf

An authoritative and comprehensive survey of the major themes, thinkers, and movements in modern European intellectual history.

Author : Wilhelm Halbfass
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788120807365

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India and Europe by Wilhelm Halbfass Pdf

This book explores the intellectual encounter of India and the West from pre-Alexandrian antiquity until the present. It examines India's role in European philosophical thought, as well as the reception of European philosophy in Indian t

Author : Dave L. Bland,Sean Patrick Webb
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498237314

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Creation, Character, and Wisdom by Dave L. Bland,Sean Patrick Webb Pdf

While the traditional Christian engagement with environmental ethics too often begins and ends with Genesis, this project joins numerous recent efforts by biblical scholars to identify new foundations on which Christians can make ethical choices about creation. Wisdom literature, a largely untapped resource, offers a unique point of entry for environmental ethics. Despite their marginalization in ethical debates on the environment, the biblical sages have a great deal to say about the inseparability of God's creation and righteous living--observations that must then be brought into conversation with a host of contemporary disciplines. As the crisis of environmental degradation permeates the lived experience of more and more Christians, it is increasingly critical to have solid and biblically defensible foundations from which to make moral choices about the environmental behavior of individuals, corporations, and nations.

Author : Oliver Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035121610

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God Within by Oliver Davies Pdf

A new edition of a classic book which brought a neglected spiritual tradition to life and conveyed the essence of the work of writers who have a particular resonance for contemporary Christians and "seekers" Jan van Ruusbroec Johannes Tauler Henry Suso and Walter Hilton as well as more familiar figures such as Meister Eckhart and Julian Norwich.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Editoriale Jaca Book
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8816720557

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Storia della storiografia by Anonim Pdf