Crossing Boundaries

Essays on the Ethical Status of Mysticism

• Author(s): George William Barnard, Jeffrey John Kripal,
• Publisher: Seven Bridges Press
• Pages: 471
• ISBN_10: 1889119253
  ISBN_13: 9781889119250
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Music / Religious / Christian , Body, Mind & Spirit / Mysticism , Philosophy / Eastern , Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy , Philosophy / Religious , Religion / Ethics , Religion / Mysticism ,

Description:... The contemporary study of religion has witnessed a consistent interest in and concern about the relationship between the unitive, ascetic, and ecstatic tendencies of mystical traditions and the more mundane but ethically pressing realms of society, custom, and civilized life. The present volume explores such issues anew through a series of original essays on the mystical traditions themselves (from Kabbalah to Chinese religion) and on some of the most pressing theoretical issues and theorists (from Bergson to Schuon) of the twentieth-century study of religion.