Anthony J. Steinbock

Phenomenology and Mysticism

The Verticality of Religious Experience

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Produktbeschreibung

Exploring the first-person narratives of three figures from theChristian, Jewish, and Islamic mystical traditions -- St. Teresa of Avila, Rabbi DovBaer, and R zbih n Baql -- Anthony J. Steinbock provides a completephenomenology of mysticism based in the Abrahamic religious traditions. He relates abroad range of religious experiences, or verticality, to philosophical problems ofevidence, selfhood, and otherness. From this philosophical description of verticalexperience, Steinbock develops a social and cultural critique in terms of idolatry-- as pride, secularism, and fundamentalism -- and suggests that contemporaryunderstandings of human experience must come from a fuller, more open view ofreligious experience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9780253221810
• ISBN-10: 0253221811
• Artikelnr.: 28532095

Autorenporträt

Anthony J. Steinbock

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