Anthony J Steinbock

Phenomenology and Mysticism

The Verticality of Religious Experience

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 165mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 667g
• ISBN-13: 9780253349347
• ISBN-10: 0253349346
• Artikelnr.: 22897137

Autorenporträt

Anthony J. Steinbock is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is author of Home and Beyond: Generative Phenomenology after Husserl and editor-in-chief of Continental Philosophy Review.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction: Vertical Givenness in Human Experience 1. The Religious and Mystical Shape of Experience 2. St. Teresa of Avila and Mysticism of Prayer 3. Rabbi Dov Baer and Mysticism of Ecstasy 4. R
zbih
n Baql
and Mysticism of Unveiling 5. Matters of Evidence in Religious Experience 6. Epiphany and Withdrawal 7. On Individuation 8. Idolatry Epilogue: On the De-Limitation of the Religious and the Moral Glossary of Main Hebrew and Arabic Terms Notes Bibliography Index