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1 online resource |
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Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of mysticism |
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Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of mysticism.
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| Contents |
Intro; Lost Ecstasy; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction: What Happened to Ecstasy? Mysticism, Ecstasy, and the Constructivist Loop; Chapter 2 Some Examples of Religious Ecstasy; Judaism; Christianity; Islam; Hinduism; Buddhism; Chapter 3 Attacks on Ecstasy: Pathologizing in Academia; Philosophy of Religion; Sociology of Religion; Anthropology of Religion; History of Religions/Religious Studies; Psychoanalysis and Ecstasy; Biology, Psychiatry, and Medicine; Chapter 4 Attacks on Ecstasy: Theology-We Don't Want It Either; Judaism; Islam; Christian Theology |
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Theology and Pathologies, the Case of MedjugorjeChapter 5 Destructive Ecstasies: Wargasm and the Joy of Violence; Ecstatic Violence; The Ecstasy of Transgression; Destructive Ecstasy and Religion; Chapter 6 The "Spiritualized" Ecstasies: Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll; Connecting Sexual Ecstasy with Spirituality: From Tantra to Romance Novels; Drugs as Entheogens: Bringing the God Within; Santo Daime-Ayahuasca as Sacrament; Ecstasy and Rock and Roll-The Ecstatic Aspects of Modern Music and Dance; Trance Dance, Neo-shamanism, and Universal Peace |
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Chapter 7 The Return of the Repressed: Millennial, Charismatic, and Renewal MovementsMillennial Christianity and the Rapture; Charismatic Christianity and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit; Other Forms of Western Religious Backlash; Chapter 8 The Case of Hinduism: Ecstasy and Denial; Vedic Religion; Upanishadic Religion; The Yoga Tradition; The Tantric Tradition; The Dharma Tradition; Folk Religion; The Bhakti Tradition; Arguments; Chapter 9 Ecstasy and Empathy: Some Venerable Elders and New Directions; Ecstasy Deprivation and the Pragmatic Argument; Ecstasy and Knowledge-The Theoretical Side |
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Modern Psychiatry and Ecstatic StatesChapter 10 Conclusions: Can We Go Beyond Criminalizing, Pathologizing, and Trivializing? Or, the Problems of Shooting Yourself in the Foot; Index |
| Summary |
"This book is a study of religious ecstasy, and the ways that it has been suppressed in both the academic study of religion, and in much of the modern practice of religion. It examines the meanings of the term, how ecstatic experience is understood in a range of religions, and why the importance of religious and mystical ecstasy has declined in the modern West. June McDaniel examines how the search for ecstatic experience has migrated into such areas as war, terrorism, transgression, sexuality, drug use, and anti-institutional forms of spirituality. She argues that the loss of religious and mystical ecstasy, as both a religious goal and as a topic of academic study, has had wide-ranging negative effects. She also proposes that the field of religious studies must go beyond criminalizing, trivializing and pathologizing ecstatic and mystical experiences. Both religious studies and theology need to take these states seriously as important aspects of lived human experience |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 29, 2018) |
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Ecstasy.
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Spirituality & religious experience.
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History of science.
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Psychology.
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Comparative religion.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Inspiration & Personal Growth.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- General.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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RELIGION -- Devotional.
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RELIGION -- Spirituality.
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Ecstasy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783319927718 |
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331992771X |
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