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Mysticism is a common, popular termed used to refer both to the experience of "mystical" [[Connection]], and to a general area of human inquiry and activity concerned with understanding and, sometimes, inducing the [[Connection Experience]]. | Mysticism is a common, popular termed used to refer both to the experience of "mystical" [[Connection]], and to a general area of human inquiry and activity concerned with understanding the nature of and, sometimes, inducing the [[Connection Experience]]. | ||
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Gender is important to an understanding of mysticism. Bruneau notes, "using gender as a category of inquiry leads to the realization, for example, that female mysticism has always been characterized by the participation and somatization of the body." <ref>Bruneau, Marie-Florine. Women Mystics Confront the Modern World. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998p. 5. https://amzn.to/2L1L0m2.</ref>. Bruneau also points to the relevance of social class, though he doesn't delve. | Gender is important to an understanding of mysticism. Bruneau notes, "using gender as a category of inquiry leads to the realization, for example, that female mysticism has always been characterized by the participation and somatization of the body." <ref>Bruneau, Marie-Florine. Women Mystics Confront the Modern World. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998p. 5. https://amzn.to/2L1L0m2.</ref>. Bruneau also points to the relevance of social class, though he doesn't delve. | ||
Zaehner defines mysticism as "the realization of a union or a unity with or in [or of] something that is enormously, if not infinitely, greater than the empirical self."<ref>Zaehner, R.C. Hindu and Muslim Mysticism. New York: Shocken Books, 1969. p. 5.https://amzn.to/2IK1A7R.</ref> | |||
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Mysticism is a common, popular termed used to refer both to the experience of "mystical" Connection, and to a general area of human inquiry and activity concerned with understanding the nature of and, sometimes, inducing the Connection Experience.
Notes
Troelsch's conception of mysticism refers directly, explicitly, and obviously, to mysticism and Connection. "What Troeltsch has in mind is an orientation of spiritual life in the history of Christianity which aims primarily at a "personal living piety and at an Interior life' which has a direct experience of salvation." [1]. Salvation here may be understood as the experience of unity and oneness that one often experiences during a Connection Experience.
Carl Keller notes, "In the context of Christian Theology, the words 'mystical', 'mystic' have a precise meaning: they designate the highest state of Christian gnosis or religious knowledge, conceptualized as 'union' with God and the perfection of man. [sic]." [2]
Gender is important to an understanding of mysticism. Bruneau notes, "using gender as a category of inquiry leads to the realization, for example, that female mysticism has always been characterized by the participation and somatization of the body." [3]. Bruneau also points to the relevance of social class, though he doesn't delve.
Zaehner defines mysticism as "the realization of a union or a unity with or in [or of] something that is enormously, if not infinitely, greater than the empirical self."[4]
Footnotes
- ↑ Steeman, Theodore M. “Church, Sect, Mysticism, Denomination: Periodological Aspects of Troeltsch’s Types.” SA. Sociological Analysis 36, no. 3 (1975): 181–204.
- ↑ Keller, Carl A. “Mystical Literature.” In Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis, edited by Steven T. Katz, 75–100. London: Sheldon Press, 1978. p. 75.
- ↑ Bruneau, Marie-Florine. Women Mystics Confront the Modern World. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998p. 5. https://amzn.to/2L1L0m2.
- ↑ Zaehner, R.C. Hindu and Muslim Mysticism. New York: Shocken Books, 1969. p. 5.https://amzn.to/2IK1A7R.
