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Teaching mysticism / edited by William B. Parsons.

Contributor(s): Parsons, William Barclay, 1955-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Teaching religious studies: Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: xii, 308 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199751198 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0199751196 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Mysticism -- Study and teaching | Mysticism -- Comparative studiesDDC classification: 204/.22 LOC classification: BL625 | .T38 2011Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Teaching mysticism : frame and content / Williams B. Parsons -- Teaching "Hindu mysticism" / Hugh B. Urban -- Mysticism before mysticism : teaching Christian mysticism as a historian of religion / April Deconick -- Teaching Chinese mysticism / Livia Kohn -- The mystical dimensions of Buddhism / David B. Gray -- Teaching Islam, teaching Islamic mysticism / David Cook -- Teaching Jewish mysticism : concealing the concealment and disclosure of secrets / Elliot R. Wolfson -- Chosen by the spirits : visionary ecology and indegenous wisdom / Lee Irwin -- Teaching African American mysticism / Joy R. Bostic -- Teaching experiential dimensions of Western esotericism / Wouter J. Hanegraaff -- Teaching the graduate seminar in comparative mysticism : a participatory integral approach / Jorge N. Ferrer -- Teaching mysticism in dialogue with gender and embodiment as a Quaker seminary : a feminist approach / Stephanie Ford -- Mysticism, spirituality and the undergraduate : reflections on the use of psychosocial theory / William B. Parsons -- Mysticism in ecumenical dialogue : questions on the nature and effects of mystical experience / Michael Stoeber -- From "comparative mysticism" to "new age spirituality" : teaching new age as raw materials of religion / Steven J. Sutcliffe -- Mystical education : social theory and pedagogical prospects / Philip Wexler -- Secrets in the seats : the erotic, the paranormal, and the free spirit / Jeffrey J. Kripal.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange BL625 .T38 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903284996

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Teaching mysticism : frame and content / Williams B. Parsons -- Teaching "Hindu mysticism" / Hugh B. Urban -- Mysticism before mysticism : teaching Christian mysticism as a historian of religion / April Deconick -- Teaching Chinese mysticism / Livia Kohn -- The mystical dimensions of Buddhism / David B. Gray -- Teaching Islam, teaching Islamic mysticism / David Cook -- Teaching Jewish mysticism : concealing the concealment and disclosure of secrets / Elliot R. Wolfson -- Chosen by the spirits : visionary ecology and indegenous wisdom / Lee Irwin -- Teaching African American mysticism / Joy R. Bostic -- Teaching experiential dimensions of Western esotericism / Wouter J. Hanegraaff -- Teaching the graduate seminar in comparative mysticism : a participatory integral approach / Jorge N. Ferrer -- Teaching mysticism in dialogue with gender and embodiment as a Quaker seminary : a feminist approach / Stephanie Ford -- Mysticism, spirituality and the undergraduate : reflections on the use of psychosocial theory / William B. Parsons -- Mysticism in ecumenical dialogue : questions on the nature and effects of mystical experience / Michael Stoeber -- From "comparative mysticism" to "new age spirituality" : teaching new age as raw materials of religion / Steven J. Sutcliffe -- Mystical education : social theory and pedagogical prospects / Philip Wexler -- Secrets in the seats : the erotic, the paranormal, and the free spirit / Jeffrey J. Kripal.

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