Teaching mysticism

Teaching mysticism

by Parsons, William Barclay

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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.

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  • Full title :Teaching mysticism / edited by William B. Parsons.

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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.

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  • Publication Date:©2011.

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  • Description:1 online resource.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0199751196, 0199876924, 9780199876921, 9780199751198
  • oclc:ocn827900583
  • LC Classification:BL625
  • Dewey Decimal:204/.22

Table of Contents

Cover; Contents; Contributors; Introduction: Teaching Mysticism: Frame and Content; PART I: Presenting the Mystical Element: Tradition and Context; 1. Teaching "Hindu Mysticism"; 2. Mysticism Before Mysticism: Teaching Christian Mysticism as a Historian of Religion; 3. Teaching Chinese Mysticism; 4. The Mystical Dimensions of Buddhism; 5. Teaching Islam, Teaching Islamic Mysticism; 6. Teaching Jewish Mysticism: Concealing the Concealment and Disclosure of Secrets; PART II: Negotiating Mysticism: Expanding the Map; 7. Chosen by the Spirits: Visionary Ecology and Indigenous Wisdom

8. Teaching African American Mysticism9. Teaching Experiential Dimensions of Western Esotericism; PART III: Investigating Mysticism: Perspectives, Theories, and Institutional Spaces; 10. Teaching the Graduate Seminar in Comparative Mysticism: A Participatory Integral Approach; 11. Teaching Mysticism in Dialogue with Gender and Embodiment at a Quaker Seminary: A Feminist Approach ; 12. Mysticism, Spirituality and the Undergraduate: Reflections on the Use of Psychosocial Theory; 13. Mysticism in Ecumenical Dialogue: Questions on the Nature and Effects of Mystical Experience

PART IV: Tracking Mysticism: Ped…

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Subjects

Mysticism -- Study and teaching Mysticisme -- Étude et enseignement

Writers

Parsons, William Barclay

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