Phenomenology and Mysticism(English, Paperback, Steinbock Anthony J.)

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Phenomenology and Mysticism(English, Paperback, Steinbock Anthony J.) is written by Steinbock Anthony J. and published by Indiana University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0253221811 (ISBN 10) and 9780253221810 (ISBN 13).

Exploring the first-person narratives of three figures from the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic mystical traditions-St. Teresa of Avila, Rabbi Dov Baer, and Ruzbihan Baqli-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.