Mysticism, Ineffability and Silence in Philosophy of Religion

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-01-14
Mått:155 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt:470 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Comparative Philosophy of Religion
Antal sidor:287
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031180156

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Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Laura Weed is a Professor of Philosophy at the College of Saint Rose in Albany NY, where she has been teaching for 28 years. She served for many years on the Mysticism Group of the American Academy or Religions, and is Director in the United States for the International Institute for Field Being, which meets regularly at the American Philosophical Association’s Eastern Division Meetings. Her research interests include Consciousness Studies, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Religion, Asian Philosophies, Philosophy of Language, and Epistemology. She is currently working on a monograph on Pan-psychism. This edited volume employs a wide variety of academic disciplines, expanding the traditional western and analytical points of view.

Innehållsförteckning

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.