Phenomenology and Mysticism

The Verticality of Religious Experience

von Anthony J. Steinbock

322 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Exploring the first-person narratives of three figures from the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic mystical traditions-St. Teresa of Avila, Rabbi Dov Baer, and R¿zbih¿n Baql¿-Anthony J. Steinbock provides a complete phenomenology of mysticism based in the Abrahamic religious traditions. He relates a broad range of religious experiences, or verticality, to philosophical problems of evidence, selfhood, and otherness. From this philosophical description of vertical experience, Steinbock develops a social and cultural critique in terms of idolatry-as pride, secularism, and fundamentalism-and suggests that contemporary understandings of human experience must come from a fuller, more open view of religious experience.

• Reihe: Indiana University Press
• ISBN: 9780253349347
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.10.2007
• Größe: 234 x 156 mm
• Verlag: Indiana University Press