Religious Experience and Mysticism: Otherness as Experience of Transcendence

by José Constantino Nieto

Book Overview

Drawing from sacred scriptures, world religions, literature, philosophy and psychology, this monograph explores them as universal sources of religious experience and mysticism. It systematically establishes the similarities and differences between them as well as their distinctions from aesthetic experiences and mystical thought. Examples from religious experience show that it is perceived in space-time categories while mystical experience transcends...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761807659
• ISBN13: 9780761807650
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 288 Pages