Mysticism, ineffability and silence in philosophy of religion / Laura E. Weed, editor.
Weed, Laura E., editor.
2023
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Title Mysticism, ineffability and silence in philosophy of religion / Laura E. Weed, editor.
ISBN 9783031180132 (electronic bk.)
3031180135 (electronic bk.)
9783031180125
3031180127
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18013-2
Published Cham : Springer, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xx, 287 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-18013-2 doi
Call Number BL51
Dewey Decimal Classification 204/.2
Summary The authors in this volume explore a wide variety of the contemporary approaches to mystical and religious experience to elucidate what religious experience is, in its own terms, and how its practitioners understand it. This anthology features contributions that point out that contemporary studies of consciousness, sociology, hermeneutics, neuroscience, medicine, and other fields, are revealing that there is much more to be said for the inner life of a humans consciousness than reductionists and behaviorists will allow. This book is one of very few that primarily takes the stance of academic practitioners, explaining their own experience, rather than that of academics trying to explain the phenomena away, as really politics, or sociology, or delusion, or psychological pathology, or literary flights of fancy, or an aberration of any of the other academic fields. Most of the authors in this volume embrace the task of explaining and analyzing religious experience, mysticism, and the healing power of silence and presence, using the resources of all of the academic disciplines, as appropriate. The essays contained analyze religious, and non-religious, mystical and profoundly personal experiences across several world religions, and in areas such as art and music, as well as in solving personal crises such as family disruption and patriarchal oppression. The authors address the subject matter through analyses of the frequent and destructive failures of language, or just noise, to capture or express the nuances of the inner life of a person. It is this very ineffability of self that renders the spiritual, emotional and interior life of individuals beyond cognition and perception, of the straightforward sorts embraced by most cognitive disciplines. The contributors come from a variety of cross-disciplinary fields to bring forth the possibilities for an intuitive and creative, rich and growing inner life for a human. This text appeals to students, researchers, and practitioners.
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Series Comparative philosophy of religion ; v. 4.
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Part I. Mysticism, Ineffability and Silence in a Few World Religions
Chapter. 1. The Shakti of Aksobhya
Chapter. 2. Ineffability: A Post-Post Modernist View of Contentless Consciousness
Chapter. 3. Ineffability and Silence in Judaism and Jewish Mysticism
Chapter. 4. Mystical Joy: A Theopoetics of "Expressive Silences" in Christianity
Chapter. 5. Spiritual Diagram as a Guardian of Silence in Daoism, Confucianism and Buddhism
Chapter. 6. Yoga, Silence and Ineffability in Hinduism
Part II. Interdisciplinary Methodologies for Analyzing Mysticism, Ineffability and Silence
Chapter. 7. Polanyi, Zen and Non-linguistic Knowledge
Chapter. 8. Four Ways of Understanding Mystical Experience
Chapter. 9. Injured Love Beyond Language: Exploring the Tacit Dimension in the Amelioration of High-Conflict Divorce
Chapter. 10. Silence at the Non-Substantialistic Turn in Epistemology
Chapter. 11. William James Ineffable More: In Philosophy of Language and Neuroscience
Chapter. 12. Speechless Meaning or Meaningless Speech: The Science of Ineffability
Chapter. 13. A Scientific Discovery and a Zen Discovery: Intuitive, Non-verbal Knowledge
Chapter. 14. Against Absolute Ineffability
Chapter. 15. A. N. Whitehead: Mysticism and the Expressive Impulse
Index.

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