Introduction: Passion Spirituality and Cognitive Studies

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Illustrations xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction: Passion Spirituality and Cognitive Studies 3
6. Part One: Rereading the Historical Context
7. 1. Renaissance Castilian Spirituality: An Embodied Christianity 29
8. 2. Navigating an Inquisitorial Culture 60
9. Part Two: A Scientific Close Reading
10. 3. Medical Bodies, Mystical Bodies 85
11. 4. Mnemotechnical Mysticism 108
12. 5. Optics, Pain, and Transformation into God 136
13. Conclusion: Cognition in Recollected Union 163
14. Notes 179
15. Bibliography 279
16. Index 311
17. Backmatter 331