2007
First Published
4.19
Average Rating
328
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Exploring the first-person narratives of three figures from the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic mystical traditions―St. Teresa of Avila, Rabbi Dov Baer, and Rūzbihān Baqlī―Anthony J. Steinbock provides a complete phenomenology of mysticism based in the Abrahamic religious traditions. He relates a broad range of religious experiences, or verticality, to philosophical problems of evidence, selfhood, and otherness. From this philosophical description of vertical experience, Steinbock develops a social and cultural critique in terms of idolatry―as pride, secularism, and fundamentalism―and suggests that contemporary understandings of human experience must come from a fuller, more open view of religious experience.
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