Roads of excess, palaces of wisdom : eroticism & reflexivity in the study of mysticism / Jeffrey J. Kripal.
By: Kripal, Jeffrey J. (Jeffrey John)
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TextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001Description: xviii, 412 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0226453790 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0226453782 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Mysticism -- Study and teaching -- History -- 20th century | Sex -- Religious aspects | Homosexuality -- Religious aspectsDDC classification: 291.4/22 LOC classification: BL625 | .K75 2001Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-390) and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-390) and index.
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).