Publication

2007-11-30 - Indiana University Press

Language

English

Word Count

77,250 words, Guess

Page Count

309 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100253349346
  • ISBN-139780253349347
  • Goodreads4364115
  • Library of Congress Control Number2007007274
  • OCLC Control Number85484960
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780253349347
  • Open LibraryOL10228893M

Classifications

  • LCCBL51.S64 2007
  • LCCBL51 .S64 2007
  • DDC204/.22

Description

"Exploring the first-person narratives of three figures from the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic mystical traditions - St. Teresa of Avila, Rabbi Dov Baer, and Ruzbihan Baqli - Anthony J. Steinbock provides a full phenomenology of mysticism based in the Abrahamic religious traditions. Steinbock relates a broad range of religious experiences, or verticality, to the many philosophical problems of evidence, selfhood, and otherness. From this philosophical description of vertical experience, Steinbock develops a social and cultural critique in terms of idolatry - as pride, secularism, and fundamentalism - and suggests that contemporary understandings of human experience must come from a fuller, more open view of religious experience. This careful study will interest all readers of philosophy and religion."--Jacket.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Phenomenology and Mysticism: The Verticality of Religious Experience (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion)HardcoverIndiana University Press2007-11-30

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