Crossing boundaries
Subtitle: essays on the ethical status of mysticism
By: [edited by] G. William Barnard, Jeffrey J. Kripal
Contributors: Barnard, G. William 1955-; Kripal, Jeffrey John, 1962-
Publisher: Seven Bridges Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 471
Subjects: Mysticism; Religion and ethics
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references