Crossing boundaries

By Jeffrey John Kripal, G. William Barnard

Subjects: Religion and ethics, Comparative government, Mysticism, history, Democracy, Political parties, united states, Public opinion, Public opinion, united states, Mysticism, Political parties, Political participation

Description: "The contemporary study of religion has witnessed a consistent interest in and concern about the relationship between the unitive, ascetic, and ecstatic tendencies of mystical traditions and the more mundane but ethically pressing realms of society, custom, and civilized life. Crossing Boundaries explores these issues anew in a series of original essays on the mystical traditions themselves (from Kabbalah to Chinese religion) and on some of the most pressing theoretical issues and theorists (from Bergson to Schuon) of the twentieth-century study of religion."--BOOK JACKET.