Introduction: The Meaning of Ecstatic Experience and Mystical Experience in the Study of Religion

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One: Ritual and Custom
6. Chapter 1. Ritual Interiorization and Intent for Commandments 59
7. Part Two: Emotion, Sensation, and Experience
8. Introduction: The Meaning of Ecstatic Experience and Mystical Experience in the Study of Religion 159
9. Chapter 2. Prophecy, Dreams, and Other Paranormal Experiences 173
10. Chapter 3. Introspective Contemplation and Inward Focusing 211
11. Part Three: Thinking about the Inner
12. Introduction: Interiorization in Religious Thought 263
13. Chapter 4. The Conceptual Interiorization of Myth and Law 267
14. Chapter 5. Existential Aspects of Inner Religious Life 341
15. Chapter 6. Epistemological Interiorization 447
16. Afterword: The Immanent Testimony to the Transcendental 511
17. Bibliography 543
18. Index of Subjects 585
19. Index of Names 591
20. Index of Sources 596