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Showing 1 to 20 of 168 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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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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Medieval Female Mysticism and Weber's Charismatic Authority. The Case of Angela of Foligno
Jelen disszertációnak a célja nem volt más, mint a középkori női misztikának, azon belül is Folignói Angéla misztikájának, mint Max Weberi értelemben vett karizmatikus uralomként történő bemutatása. Ezáltal pedig egy új társadalomtudományi megközelítés bevezetése az értelmezési lehetőségek egyre …
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Mysticism in Indian English Poetry (Sri Aurobindo, Puran Singh, Sri Ananda Acharya, Krishnamurti, India)
Defining mysticism as the quest for, and the attainment of, complete self-realization, this dissertation examines the work of four major and nine minor Indian English mystical poets. The study devotes a chapter each to mysticism in the poetry of Sri Ananda Acharya, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Puran Singh, …
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Obscured Visions: Psychology, Religion, and Mysticism in J. SHeridan Le Fanu's In a Glass Darkly
During the height of the Victorian Period and the development of the sensation novel, the public eagerly consumed the writings of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and the author was a household name. In the current age, however, scholarly criticism often focuses on “Carmilla” (1872) and other texts in …
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