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Lost Ecstasy - Its Decline and Transformation in Religion (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Lost Ecstasy - Its Decline and Transformation in Religion (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Mysticism
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This book is a study of religious ecstasy, and the ways that it has
been suppressed in both the academic study of religion, and in much
of the modern practice of religion. It examines the meanings of the
term, how ecstatic experience is understood in a range of
religions, and why the importance of religious and mystical ecstasy
has declined in the modern West. June McDaniel examines how the
search for ecstatic experience has migrated into such areas as war,
terrorism, transgression, sexuality, drug use, and
anti-institutional forms of spirituality. She argues that the loss
of religious and mystical ecstasy, as both a religious goal and as
a topic of academic study, has had wide-ranging negative effects.
She also proposes that the field of religious studies must go
beyond criminalizing, trivializing and pathologizing ecstatic and
mystical experiences. Both religious studies and theology need to
take these states seriously as important aspects of lived human
experience.
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