Yoga, Meditation, and Mysticism: Contemplative Universals and Meditative Landmarks
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Table of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration, Spelling, and Translations -- Prologue -- Introduction -- A New Day for Perennialism? -- Religious Pluralism and the Search for Contemplative Universals -- Toward a Postconstructivist and Ess...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
2016
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| Parallel Edition: | Print version: Rose, Kenneth: Yoga, Meditation, and Mysticism : Contemplative Universals and Meditative Landmarks. - London : Bloomsbury Publishing,c2016. - 9781472571687 |
| Summary: | Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Table of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration, Spelling, and Translations -- Prologue -- Introduction -- A New Day for Perennialism? -- Religious Pluralism and the Search for Contemplative Universals -- Toward a Postconstructivist and Essentialistic Comparativism -- Part I -- Chapter 1 A New Comparative Religion and the Search for Contemplative Universals -- The Naming Explosion and Religious Universals in Religious Studies -- What is a Religion? -- A Thought Experiment -- Defining the Universal Religion The Dawn of a New Comparative Religion -- Chapter 2 Recovering the Mystical in the Reign of Constructivism -- A Short History of Mysticism -- Mysticism: One or Many? -- Katz ' s Constructivist Counterrevolution -- Losing the Mystical in the Mysticisms: The Dead End of Constructivism -- Disconfirming Constructivism: Three Perspectives -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Biological Essentialism and the New Sciences of Religion -- The God Helmet: Triumph of Reductionism or Dawn of Spiritual Neurobiology? -- The New Sciences of Religion The Neurobiological Basis of the Spiritual sui generis -- Conclusion -- Part II -- Introduction to Part Two -- Charting the Common Itinerary of the Contemplative Experience -- Chapter 4 The Concentrative Itinerary of the Buddhist Jh ā nas -- The Jh ā nas and Early Buddhism -- Jh ā na Maximalists and Jh ā na Minimalists -- Jh ā na and Vipassan ā : Bypassing a Forced Controversy? -- The Easy Path and the Hard Path -- The Contemplative Path of the Visuddhimagga -- Therav ā da Meditative Landmarks and the Common Contemplative Itinerary Chapter 5 The Concentrative Itinerary of Yogic Sam ā dhi -- Classical Yoga, R ā ja Yoga, P ā ta ñ jala Yoga - or Something Else? -- The Contemplative Path of the Yoga S ū tra -- Pāta ñ jalian Meditative Landmarks and the Common Yogic-Mystical Itinerary -- Chapter 6 The Concentrative Itinerary of Catholic Unio Mystica -- The Return of a Vanished Classic -- The Vanishing of Mystical Experience in Contemporary Catholic Spiritual Theologies -- A Comparative Theology or a Comparative Phenomenology? -- The Contemplative Path of Des gr â ces d ' oraison The Training Context of the Des gr â ces d ' oraison -- The Degrees of Ordinary Prayer -- The Stages of Mystical, or Contemplative, Prayer -- Catholic Mystical-Theological Landmarks and the Common Contemplative Itinerary -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 1472571681 |