TY - BOOK AU - Katz,Steven T. TI - Mysticism and religious traditions SN - 0195033132 AV - BL625 .M893 1983 U1 - ARCH YNDC 291.4 K19M 19 PY - 1983/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press, KW - Mysticism KW - Comparative studies KW - Religious life N1 - 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 ER -