Roads of excess, palaces of wisdom : eroticism & reflexivity in the study of mysticism
Addresses the 20th-century study of mysticism as a kind of mystical tradition in its own right, with its own unique histories, discourses, sociological dynamics, and rhetorics of secrecy. Jeffrey J. Kripal examines the lives and works of five historians of mysticism.
Aufsatzsammlung
xviii, 412 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780226453781, 9780226453798, 0226453782, 0226453790
46975180
Eyeing the burning wings: analyzing the mystical experience of love in Evelyn Underhill's Mysticism (1911)
The passion of Louis Massignon: sublimating the homoerotic gaze in The passion of al-Hallāj (1922)
The doors of deception: R.C. Zaehner's ethical and erotic challenges to monistic experience in Mysticism sacred and profane (1957) and Discordant concord (1970)
Writing out of the light at the center: reading Agehananda Bharati's tantric trilogy (1960, 1965, 1976)
The mystical mirror of hermeneutics: gazing into Elliot Wolfson's Speculum (1994)