Teaching mysticism

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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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Publication Date:©2011.

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2011.

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Description:xii, 308 pages ; : 25 cm.

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ISBN:9780199751198, 0199751196
oclc:ocn691204190
LC Classification:BL625
Dewey Decimal:204/.22

Introduction -- Teaching mysticism: frame and content / William B. Parsons -- Teaching "Hindu mysticism" / Hugh B. Urban -- Mysticism before mysticism: teaching Christian mysticism as a historian of religion / April Deconick -- Teaching Chinese mysticism / Livia Kohn -- The mystical dimensions of Buddhism / David B. Gray -- Teaching Islam, teaching Islamic mysticism / David Cook -- Teaching Jewish mysticism: concealing the concealment and disclosure of secrets / Elliot R. Wolfson -- Chosen by the spirits: visionary ecology and indigenous wisdom / Lee Irwin -- Teaching African American mysticism / Joy R. Bostic -- Teaching experiential dimensions of western esotericism / Wouter J. Hanegraaff -- Teaching the graduate seminar in comparative mysticism: a participatory integral approach / Jorge N. Ferrer -- Teaching mysticism in dialogue with gender and embodiment at a Quaker seminary: a feminist approach / Stephanie Ford -- Mysticism, spirituality and the undergraduate: reflections on the use of psychosocial theory / William B. Parsons -- Mysticism in ecumenical dialogue: questions on the nature and effects of mystical experience / Michael Stoeber -- From "comparative mysticism" to "n…