Mysticism and religious traditions / edited by Steven T. Katz
1983, First Edition. New York : Oxford University Press. Very good paperback copy; cover slightly creased and dulled as with age. Clean internally, and remains well-preserved overall with very slight tanning to pages as with age. Item #448260
ISBN: 0195033140
Series; Galaxy book ; GB 739. Physical description; 279 pages ; 20 cm. Contents; The 'conservative' character of mystical experience / Steven T. Katz -- Mysticism in its contexts / Robert M. Gimello -- The mystical illusion / Hans H. Penner -- The purification of consciousness and the negative path / Ninian Smart -- Sufism and the Islamic tradition / Annemarie Schimmel -- Experience and dogma in the English mystics / H.P. Owen -- Francis of Assisi : Christian mysticism at the crossroads / Ewert H. Cousins -- Conceiving Hindu 'Bhakti' as theistic mysticism / John B. Carman -- The mirror symbol revisited : Confucian and Taoist mysticism / Julia Ching -- William James's account of mysticism : a critical appraisal / John E. Smith. Subjects; Mysticism Comparative studies. Sufism and the Islamic tradition. Hindu Bhakti theistic mysticism.
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