Roads of excess, palaces of wisdom : eroticism & reflexivity in the study of mysticism / Jeffrey J. Kripal.
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Chicago :
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2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Eyeing the burning wings: analyzing the mystical experience of love in Evelyn Underhill's Mysticism (1911)
- The passion of Louis Massignon: sublimating the homoerotic gaze in The passion of al-Hallāj (1922)
- The doors of deception: R.C. Zaehner's ethical and erotic challenges to monistic experience in Mysticism sacred and profane (1957) and Discordant concord (1970)
- Writing out of the light at the center: reading Agehananda Bharati's tantric trilogy (1960, 1965, 1976)
- The mystical mirror of hermeneutics: gazing into Elliot Wolfson's Speculum (1994)