Varieties of Mystical Experience in the Abrahamic Religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

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Explores the mystical phenomenon in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Topics to be discussed include: language and the limits of reason; the problem of pure consciousness and the contextualization of experience; contemplative vision and the invisible; ascetic renunciation and the eroticism of mystical union; mystical atheism and the antinomian overcoming the law.