Teaching mysticism / edited by William B. Parsons.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parsons, William Barclay, 1955-

Series:

AAR Teaching Religious Studies

Teaching religious studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mysticism--Study and teaching.

Mysticism.

Spiritual life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The term ''mysticism'' has never been consistently defined or employed, either in religious traditions or in academic discourse. The essays in this volume offer ways of defining what mysticism is, as well as methods for grappling with its complexity in a classroom.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Contributors; Introduction: Teaching Mysticism: Frame and Content; PART I: Presenting the Mystical Element: Tradition and Context; 1. Teaching "Hindu Mysticism"; 2. Mysticism Before Mysticism: Teaching Christian Mysticism as a Historian of Religion; 3. Teaching Chinese Mysticism; 4. The Mystical Dimensions of Buddhism; 5. Teaching Islam, Teaching Islamic Mysticism; 6. Teaching Jewish Mysticism: Concealing the Concealment and Disclosure of Secrets; PART II: Negotiating Mysticism: Expanding the Map; 7. Chosen by the Spirits: Visionary Ecology and Indigenous Wisdom

8. Teaching African American Mysticism9. Teaching Experiential Dimensions of Western Esotericism; PART III: Investigating Mysticism: Perspectives, Theories, and Institutional Spaces; 10. Teaching the Graduate Seminar in Comparative Mysticism: A Participatory Integral Approach; 11. Teaching Mysticism in Dialogue with Gender and Embodiment at a Quaker Seminary: A Feminist Approach ; 12. Mysticism, Spirituality and the Undergraduate: Reflections on the Use of Psychosocial Theory; 13. Mysticism in Ecumenical Dialogue: Questions on the Nature and Effects of Mystical Experience

PART IV: Tracking Mysticism: Pedagogy and Contemporary Culture14. From "Comparative Mysticism" to "New Age Spirituality": Teaching New Age as Raw Materials of Religion; 15. Mystical Education: Social Theory and Pedagogical Prospects; 16. Secrets in the Seats: The Erotic, the Paranormal, and the Free Spirit; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Jan. 21, 2012).

ISBN:

0-19-020863-5

1-283-42340-5

0-19-987692-4

9786613423405

OCLC:

773828455