This book examines the ways in which mysticism can tell us about translation and translation can tell us about mysticism, addressing the ancient but ongoing connections between the art of rendering one text in another language and the art of the ine...Loe edasi...
This book begins by delving into definitions of mysticism and existentialism, and then traces the elements of mysticism present in German and French thought during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....Loe edasi...
This monograph explores the original literary produce of Muslim mystics during the 8th 10th centuries, with special attention to 9th c. mystics, such as al-Tustar, al-Musib, al-Kharrz, al-Junayd and, in particular, al-akm al-Tirmidh....Loe edasi...
This is a completely revised and enlarged edition of the well-known classic. In the twenty years since the previous edition was published much progress has been made in regard to the clinical concept of psychoanalysis, and this new edition brings th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Jan-2012, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199751198)
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...Loe edasi...
Originally published 1867. This volume describes not only the basic tenets of the Sufis but also the Ahl i wahdat which was a branch of Sufism....Loe edasi...
Gives an account of magical procedures of the past. This work provides the reader with passages from leading magical texts from the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries. It covers magical procedure, and includes topics such as gods, costum...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jul-2005, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199279432)
Mystical experiences of the natural world bring a sense of unity, knowledge, self-transcendence, eternity, light, and love. This is the first detailed study of these intriguing phenomena. Paul Marshall surveys and evaluates a wide range of explanati...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Oct-2004, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199271986)
David Brown argues that it is important to experience God through place in all its variety - nature, landscape art, architecture (both secular and sacred, historical and modern), gardens, sports venues, pilgrimage, maps, and town planning. Religious...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Sep-2004, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199267798)
The Macarian writings are one of the principal fountainheads of the Christian ascetic and mystical tradition. This book re-evaluates many of the factors which have hindered a due appreciation of the nature of their theological and spiritual legacy....Loe edasi...
This classic work by D.T. Suzuki, the man who brought Zen Buddhism to the west, is a book that challenges and inspires; it will benefit readers of all persuasions who seek to understand something of the nature of spiritual life....Loe edasi...
Providing the first comprehensive selection in English of Nasafis treatises, this work offers the Western student of Islam a much-needed guide to the speculative and practical dimensions of Sufism....Loe edasi...
A study of the mystical nature of tradition, and the traditional nature of mysticism, and of St Symeon as both a highly personal and very traditional ecclesiastical writer. This book examines St Symeons attitude to Scripture and to church worship,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2000, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780195097030)
This is the fourth in an influential series of volumes on mysticism edited by Steven T. Katz, presenting a basic revaluation of the nature of mysticism. Each presents a collection of solicited papers by noted experts in the study of religion. This n...Loe edasi...
This transcultural collection of articles attempts to open the way for musicians to rediscover a tradition of wisdom and imagination which has always existed as an element of the psyche....Loe edasi...
