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Part of the book series: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Mysticism (INTERMYST)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
Keywords
- Death
- dying
- mysticism
- Yoga
- psychoanalysis
- meditation
- spirituality
- practice
- Lacan
- Francis of Assisi
- Patanjali
- Gregory of Nyssa
- Kant
- Thoreau
- Weil
- near-death experience
- afterlife
- America
- biography
- death
- experience
- Hinduism
- Immanuel Kant
- Jacques Lacan
- management
- music
- pattern
- structure
- subject
- tradition
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Reviews
“As an introductory insight into the world of mysticism and death, this book would well suit readers unfamiliar to the topic; being able to readily choose a direction of their interest. However, even a reader familiar with the area may be able to gain greater understanding, primarily by re-balancing their existing knowledge within a larger context, and thereby helping to shake off any academic astigmatisms or tunnel-vision which can sometimes develop with time.” (Vladimir Dubaj, Australian Journal of Parapsychology, Vol. 17, December, 2017)
“Death, Dying, and Mysticism offers a rich, multi-disciplinary perspective on physical death as a time of transformation, and examines the mystical loss of ego mentioned in various religious narratives on dying. … A number of articles in this book explore death, grief, spiritual experience, and identity for various key thinkers, artists, and composers.” (Dr. Lise Vail, RR Reading Religion, readingreligion.org, September, 2016)
“The book is an interesting and diverse collection of essays analyzing the relationship of mysticism and death in a variety of disciplines. ... presents a challenge to our contemporary hermeneutic of interpreting both mysticism and death as one dimensional and universal. Cattoi and Moreman’s edited collection reminds the reader that the numinous can be encountered in many different shapes and forms—even, and especially, in encounters with dying and death.” (Candi K. Cann, Omega, Vol. 73 (2), 2016)
'Thomas Cattoi and Christopher Moreman have presented a striking overview of spiritual analyses and interpretations of the death and the dying process. While the diversity of the material in this volume is considerable, the unifying themes are the inevitability of death, even for those of us in contemporary culture who seek ways to deny it, and the ennobling capacity of the human spirit to embrace and sanctify life, even as it slips away, or perhaps, especially when it slips away.' Laura Weed, The College of Saint Rose, USA
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Death, Dying, and Mysticism
Book Subtitle: The Ecstasy of the End
Editors: Thomas Cattoi, Christopher M. Moreman
Series Title: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Mysticism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137472083
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-47207-6Published: 01 April 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-50110-6Published: 09 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-47208-3Published: 01 April 2015
Series ISSN: 2946-3270
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3289
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 281
Topics: Comparative Religion, History of Religion, Spirituality