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Showing 1 to 20 of 174 for “"Mysticism"”.
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A Rhetoric of mysticism
Research into mystical experience has to date relied primarily on retrospective self reports of mystical states. Analysis of such reports assumes a direct correspondence between their content and the content of the experiences. But experiencers themselves often express dissatisfaction with the …
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Myth and Mysticism In Plato's Phaedo
This thesis explores the philosophical significance of eschatological myth in Plato's Phaedo. Against the view that that the eschatological myths of the Phaedo are unphilosophical or are only made philosophical by being demythologized, in my thesis I argue that they are essentially philosophical, …
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Women of Color and Religious Mysticism in Southern Gothic
The exegesis, Women of Color and Religious Mysticism in Southern Gothic, doesn’t just frame Rituals of the Night but amplifies it, particularly to give silenced voices a chance to speak within the genre. The exegesis explores two major themes present within Rituals of the Night from the very first …
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Untimely meditations: female mysticism in medieval culture and modern scholarship
… opening chapter provides a survey of medieval mysticism and considers the problems of developing and defining a language set with which to discuss the abstract nature of the mystical. This survey is followed by a set of diverse case studies which consider a selection of medieval mystics from …
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An examination of the relationships among personality, religiosity, spirituality, and mysticism
… among personality, spirituality, religiosity and mysticism. Predictions were partially supported. Participants high on traditionalism and low on transformation scored higher in extrinsic religious orientation compared to those low on traditionalism and high on transformation. Participants low on …
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The Bride as Symbol: Mechthild von Magdeburg and the Logic of Mysticism
… in salvation history, the basic tensions of her mysticism, her use of paradox, hyperbole, and metaphor, the dynamics propelling the soul from wretchedness into eminence, the wide-ranging connotations of her imagery, and the unifying dynamic essence of God and soul. Such enigmatic qualities typify …
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"Variations of the rainbow" : mysticism, history and aboriginal Australia in Patrick White
This study examines Patrick White's Voss, Riders in the Chariot and A Fringe of Leaves. These works, which span White's creative career, demonstrate certain abiding preoccupations, while also showing a marked shift in treatment and philosophy. In Chapter One Voss is discussed as an essentially …
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Parables of the lovers: the hermeneutics of divine love in medieval Islamic mysticism
Through a hermeneutic analysis of medieval Islamic texts, the thesis examines the development of ideas about Divine love––its ontological origin, nature, and telos––in Sufism, with a focus on the teachings of four luminaries within the mystical tradition: Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d. 505/1111), Ahmad …
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Dante Poeticus/ Dante Mystics : Dante's Mysticism from his time through the sixteenth century.
… relationship of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) to mysticism has been investigated in a surprisingly lopsided manner by scholars. That Dante was influenced by mystics who lived before him is not seriously in question, and not merely because Dante himself claimed to have read, and to have been …
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