RT Book
T1 Yoga, Meditation, and Mysticism: Contemplative Universals and Meditative Landmarks
A1 Rose, Kenneth 1951-
LA English
PP London
PB Bloomsbury Publishing
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/863872638
AB 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
AB 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
AB 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
AB 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
AB 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
OP 261
NO Description based upon print version of record
SN 978-1-4725-7168-7
K1 Electronic books