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Teaching Mysticism: AAR Teaching Religious Studies

Editat de William B. Parsons
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 ian 2012
The term ''mysticism'' has never been consistently defined or employed, either in religious traditions or in academic discourse. The essays in this volume offer ways of defining what mysticism is, as well as methods for grappling with its complexity in a classroom.This volume addresses the diverse literature surrounding mysticism in four interrelated parts. The first part includes essays on the tradition and context of mysticism, devoted to drawing out and examining the mystical element in many religious traditions. The second part engages traditions and religio-cultural strands in which ''mysticism'' is linked to other terms, such as shamanism, esotericism, and Gnosticism. The volume's third part focuses on methodological strategies for defining ''mysticism,'' with respect to varying social spaces. The final essays show how contemporary social issues and movements have impacted the meaning, study, and pedagogy of mysticism.Teaching Mysticism presents pedagogical reflections on how best to communicate mysticism from a variety of institutional spaces. It surveys the broad range of meanings of mysticism, its utilization in the traditions, the theories and methods that have been used to understand it, and provides critical insight into the resulting controversies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199751198
ISBN-10: 0199751196
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 239 x 163 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Seria AAR Teaching Religious Studies

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

Parsons has succeeded to bring together some of the most important established authorities on mystical traditions, together with emerging authorities, and cover an impressively varied and broad range of subfields within the study of mysticism, esotericism, and Gnosticism.

Notă biografică

Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Rice University