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Lost Ecstasy - Its Decline and Transformation in Religion (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018) Loot Price: R3,586
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Lost Ecstasy - Its Decline and Transformation in Religion (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): June McDaniel

Lost Ecstasy - Its Decline and Transformation in Religion (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)

June McDaniel

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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Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin: Switzerland
Series: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Mysticism
Release date: July 2018
First published: 2018
Authors: June McDaniel
Dimensions: 210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 325
Edition: 1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13: 978-3-319-92770-1
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Psychology > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > Comparative religion
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Religious experience > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Religious experience > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > Comparative religion
LSN: 3-319-92770-1
Barcode: 9783319927701

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