Philip Wexler

Mystical Society (eBook, ePUB)

An Emerging Social Vision

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"In Mystical Society Philip Wexler, a well-known critical theorist with a background in social psychology and a special interest in spirituality, examines the revitalization of spirituality manifesting"

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429978401
• Artikelnr.: 52479969

Autorenporträt

Philip Wexler

Inhaltsangabe

1. Mystical Society: Prologue
Religion, Sociology, Education
Interaction: Structure, Discourse, and Being
Mysticism: Analysis and Utopia
2. Society: Informationalism, Mysticism, Revitalization
Informational Society
Religion and Mysticism
Revitalization
Examples
3. Self: Reselfing
Immortal Self
Eliade and Hasidism
Reselfing
Classical Sociology: Religion, Power and Self
Postmodern Self in Society: Melucci and Foucault
A Typology of Reselfing
Self and Structure
4. Criticism: From Culture to Being
Lasch: Social Criticism and the Sacred
Gnosticism and the New Age
Social Ethic of Being
Frankfurt School
Embodied Criticism
Phantasms and Energy
5. Social Theory: From Society to Cosmos
The Social
Social Energy
Beyond Dualism
Reintegration
Education As Embodied Mediation
From the Social to the Cosmic
6. Education: From Postmodernism to Ethnography of Being
Educational Research
Context of Educational Research
Mystical Education
School Ethnography of Being
Prophetic Education
7. Social Interaction: From Alienation to Mysticism
Destruction
Creation
American Religion: Drugs, Nature, Immanence
William James: Over the Threshold to Mystical Revitalization
Hindu Tantrism: New Dynamics of Embodied Mystical Mediation
Hasidism: Individual Redemption and Collective Messianism
Secular Mysticism
8. Epilogue: Mystical Sociology and Beyond
Mystical Sociology
Self
Social Interaction
Society
Pedagogy of Revitalization
"Forgotten Things,"