Introduction |
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Part I: What Is Mysticism? |
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Are Mystics Completely Different? |
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``I Am What I Do'': C. S. Lewis |
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Stepping Out and Immersing Oneself |
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Commotion and Unity: Martin Buber |
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Rabi'a and Sufi Mysticism |
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Mansur al-Hallaj: Agnus Dei Mohammedanus |
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We Have Not Been Created for Small Things |
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Definitions, Methods, Delimitations |
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From the Hermeneutic of Suspicion to a Hermeneutic of Hunger |
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Pluralism of Methods and Contextuality |
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The Distinction between Genuine and False Mysticism |
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The Cloud of Unknowing and the Cloud of Forgetting |
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Sunder Warumbe: Without a Why or Wherefore |
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A Language Without Dominance |
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The Via Negativa, the Way of Negation |
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Ladders to Heaven and Stations on Earth |
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Purification, Illumination, Union: The Three Ways of Classic Mysticism |
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Traces of a Different Journey: Thomas Muntzer |
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Being Amazed, Letting Go, Resisting: Outline of a Mystical Journey for Today |
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Part II: Places of Mystical Experience |
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A Morning Hymn: Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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Monotheism, Pantheism, Panentheism |
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Sharing and Healing: A Different Relation to the Earth |
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Heavenly and Earthly Love and Their Inseparability |
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Marguerite Porete and the Enrapturing Far-Near One |
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The Bitterness of Ecstasy: D. H. Lawrence and Ingeborg Bachmann |
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Job: The Satanic and the Mystical Wager |
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Between Dolorousness and Suffering |
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``Even When It Is Night'': John of the Cross |
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``Better in Agony than in Numbness'': Twentieth-Century Mysticism of Suffering |
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The Hidden Sacred Sparks: Hasidim |
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Community, the Sinai of the Future: An Examination of Buber's Relation to Mysticism |
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Without Rules and Poor, Persecuted, and Free: The Beguines |
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The Society of Friends and the Inner Light |
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The Mystical Relation to Time: Thich Nhat Hanch |
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Publicans, Jesters, and Other Fools: The Abolition of Divisions |
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Dancing and Leaping: The Body Language of Joy |
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The Relation of Mysticism and Aesthetics |
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Part III: Mysticism Is Resistance |
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As if we Lived in a Liberated World |
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The Prison We Have Fallen Asleep in: Globalization and Individualization |
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Out of the Home into Homelessness |
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Acting and Dreaming: Becoming Martha and Mary |
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The Ego: The Best Prison Guard |
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``Go Where You Are Nothing!'' |
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Asceticism: For and Against |
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Tolstoy's Conversion from the Ego to God |
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Freedom from the ``Ring of Cold'': Dag Hammarskjold |
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Possession and Possessionlessness |
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Naked and Following the Naked Savior: Francis of Assisi |
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John Woolman and the Society of Slave Owners |
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Voluntary Poverty: Dorothy Day |
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Middle Roads and Crazy Freedoms |
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The Unity of All Living Beings |
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The Duty of Civil Disobedience: Henry David Thoreau |
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Mahatma Gandhi and Ahimsa |
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``Our Weapon Is to Have None'': Martin Luther King Jr. |
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Between Hopes and Defeats |
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A Mysticism of Liberation |
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The Death and Life of Severino: Joao Cabral |
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Kneeling Down and Learning to Walk Upright: The Theology of Liberation |
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``When You Dance with Death, You Must Dance Well'': Pedro Casaldaliga |
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The Voice of the Mute: Dom Helder Camara |
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Learning to Pray and a Different Mysticism |
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Afterword: A Conversation |
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Notes |
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Bibliography |
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Index |
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