From Clare of Assisi in the Middle Ages to Therese of Lisieux in the late nineteenth century, Flinders's informal portraits reveal a common foundation of conviction, courage, and serenity in the lives of these great European Catholic mystics.
This thesis examines the life and works of Benjamin Wolf Rosoff (1869–1957), a pious Jewish tailor and mystical visionary of the period of the great immigration of East European Jews to the United States. The thesis focuses on Rosoff as a member of this migration who sought neit…
The memories of medieval Sufi saints had an important influence on Turkish society and culture during the Ottoman Empire, but when the empire came to its demise in the early twentieth century and its central lands were taken over by the modernist, nationalist, secularist Republi…
". . . the remarkable story of the spiritual search of one of Michigan's most successful entrepreneurs, a search that culminated in the creation of the Fetzer Institute whose ambitious mission is nothing less than the spiritual tranformation of the world. Born in 1901 and headqu…
