Over the course of his twenty-five-year career, Jeffrey J. Kripal's
study of religion has had two major areas of focus: the erotic
expression of mystical experience and the rise of the paranormal in
American culture. This book brings these two halves together in
surprising ways through a blend of memoir, manifesto, and
anthology, drawing new connections between these two realms of
human experience and revealing Kripal's body of work to be a
dynamic whole that has the potential to renew and reshape the study
of religion. Kripal tells his story, biographically, historically
and politically contextualizing each of the six books of his
Chicago corpus, from Kali's Child to Mutants and Mystics, all the
while answering his censors and critics and exploring new
implications of his thought. In the process, he begins to sketch
out a speculative "new comparativism" in twenty theses. The result
is a new vision for the study of religion, one that takes in the
best of the past, engages with outside critiques from the sciences
and the humanities, and begins to blaze a new positive path
forward. A major work decades in the making, Secret Body will
become a landmark in the study of religion.
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