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Mysticism. --- mysticism in the tradition of Butler, Underhill, and Zaehner --- Hindu monastic orders --- social sciences --- oriental religious movements in America --- gurus --- the West --- mystical experience --- language philosophy --- behavioral sciences

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doctors --- voodoo priests --- Southern revivalists --- pulsating music --- frenetic dancing --- fiery preaching --- bizarre sexual practices --- drugs --- possession --- mystical experience --- faith healing --- psychological mechanisms --- gods --- spirits --- demons --- oracles --- hypnosis --- faith healers --- psychiatric techniques

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Buddhism --- psychological analysis of Zen and Christian mystical experience --- theological and philosophical problems --- mysticism --- 'mysticism gap' between East and West --- Zen --- cultural revolution --- Christianity and religions of the East --- Zen Buddhist insight and Christian contemplation

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The scientific and technical achievements of the last decades have enabled man to achieve an unquestionable life comfort. Paradoxically, however, they also stand behind his existential struggles, where the need to slow down the pace and restore one’s own emotional and cognitive resources, revive communication models based on immediate contact, be authentic, creative, stronger, and so on breaks through the surface. One way of looking for a personal way of life and its meaning is through a religious, more precisely, spiritual experience. We consider the mystical experience to be the modality of the spiritual expression or, more precisely, its autonomous part. We see it as a descent of man into his own interior, so called the centre, in which he acquires a pouring knowledge of the nature of God. Although it is an individual and spontaneous experience, it is characterized by some universal features: imagery as a means of conveying the inexpressible content and as an archetypal basis of spiritual tradition. The publication focuses on the literary-artistic forms of the mystical experience as well as the literary forms of mystagogy, that is the interpretation of the mystical experience of the mystic. Through individual analytical-interpretative contributions based on the works of the mystics of the Western Christian tradition, we will try to enter into a specific image of ineffability modelled (the language of mystical unification) and reflexively stimulated (the language of mystagogy) by mystical experience. This is a complex subject confirmed by its basic attribute (inexpressibility at the language level) and by its thought-initiated tensions (for example, interior vs. exterior, authentic vs. ritual, profane vs. sacred, natural vs. supernatural).

Literary studies: general --- mystical experience, individual and spontaneous experience, tradition, imagery, literary form, mystery, art --- Visual Arts --- Aesthetics --- Syntax --- Lexis --- Semantics --- Historical Linguistics --- Comparative Study of Literature --- Czech Literature --- French Literature --- Slovak Literature --- Other Language Literature --- Theory of Literature --- Stylistics --- British Literature

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This book offers a specialized study focusing on the phenomenon of the female mystic and the divine feminine in the global Sufi experience. Drawing on classical and modern periods, it presents a considered approach to the topic from the disciplines of literature, history, religion, philosophy, language and linguistics, and anthropology. As each author offers their expertise in their respective fields, each article, therefore, whilst a standalone piece, contributes collectively to the multidisciplinary understanding of the female and the feminine in Sufi experience. The book addresses the topic from different points of view, showing the authors’ interest in subjectivity, literary and artistic productivity, as well as notable figures of importance, but narrows the purview of its examination to case studies, historical periods, and philosophical concerns of relevance. Focused areas of inquiry include the economic power of Sufi women in history; the hierophanic dialectics of mystical Islamic poetry with regard to “the feminine” experience in Yunus Emre; the ontology of the sacred feminine and female mystic in classical Sufi poiesis; the mystical autochthonous presence in local Sufi praxis of Indonesia; reconfigurations of gendered understanding in Argentinian Sufism; and symbolism and spiritual psychology in Sufi cosmology. This book is an interdisciplinary publication that brings together an international host of scholars from around the world, including University of Amsterdam, University of St Gallen, University of Haifa, Western Sydney University, Monash University, and Australian National University.

Research & information: general --- sacred feminine --- divine feminine in Sufism --- Sufi orders --- female saints --- female leadership in Sufism --- Dewi Anjani --- Nahdlatul Wathan --- Lombok --- Indonesia --- indigenous feminine --- Sufism --- female mystic --- divine feminine --- phenomenology --- history --- mysticism --- Aredvi Sura Anahita --- Mount Qaf --- Divine Feminine --- Xvarnah --- Khezr --- mystical experience --- Yunus Emre --- the Feminine --- hierophanic dialectics --- deconstruction --- literary analysis --- phenomenology of Sufi --- arfāq al-niswān (women’s donations) --- sisters --- mothers --- ḥaqq al-wālida (mother’s right) --- poverty --- charity --- khidma (service) --- Sufism in Latin America --- Islam in Latin America --- gender and Sufism --- Naqshbandiyya Haqqaniyya