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Mysticism and religious traditions / edited by Steven T. Katz - New York : Oxford University Press, 1983 - 279 pages ; 20 cm

Includes bibliographical references

The 'conservative' character of mystical experience / Steven T. Katz -- Mysticism in its contexts / Robert M. Gimello -- The mystical illusion / Hans H. Penner -- The purification of consciousness and the negative path / Ninian Smart -- Sufism and the Islamic tradition / Annemarie Schimmel -- Experience and dogma in the English mystics / H.P. Owen -- Francis of Assisi : Christian mysticism at the crossroads / Ewert H. Cousins -- Conceiving Hindu 'Bhakti' as theistic mysticism / John B. Carman -- The mirror symbol revisited : Confucian and Taoist mysticism / Julia Ching -- William James's account of mysticism : a critical appraisal / John E. Smith

ISBN: 0195033132 9780195033137 0195033140 (pbk.) 9780195033144 (pbk.)

LCCN: 82022508

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Mysticism--Comparative studies

Subjects--Index Terms: Religious life Mysticism

LC Class. No.: BL625 / .M893 1983

Dewey Class. No.: ARCH YNDC 291.4 K19M