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Mysticism in world religion

Print Book, English, 1971 [©1963]
P. Smith, Gloucester, Mass., 1971 [©1963]
Comparative studies
363 pages 21 cm.
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Mysticism in primitive religions
Hindu mysticism. The Upanishads ; The Bhagavad gita ; The Vedanta ; Bhakti mysticism
Buddhist mysticism. The Hinayana and the Mahayana ; Mysticism in the Hinayana ; The mysticism of the Mahayana ; Tantric Buddhism
Taoist and Confucian mysticism. Taoism ; Mystical elements in Confucianism
Greek and Hellenistic mysticism. Greek mysticism ; Philo ; The Hermetic movement ; The Gnostics ; The mystery-religions ; Plotinus and Neo-Platonism
Hebrew and Jewish mysticism. Mysticism in the Old Testament ; Jewish mysticism
Christian mysticism. Mysticism in the New Testament ; Mysticism in the Eastern Church ; Mysticism in the Western Catholic Church ; Heretical movements in Western Catholic mysticism ; Protestant mysticism
Islamic mysticism. The growth of Sufism ; Main trends of Sufi teaching
Mystical religions : a survey of tendencies. The mystics and the nature of reality ; The mystics and pantheism ; Divine immanence and transcendence ; The mystics and the self ; The mystics and the world ; The nature of evil ; The mystics and the moral life ; The mystics and religious orthodoxy