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Volume V
**SCHOLARLY BOOKS ON MYSTICISM**

Title: The paradox of the mystical text in medieval English literature /
Author(s): Jenkins, Charles M.
Publication: Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press,
Projected Date: 0306
Year: 2003
Description: p. cm.
Language: English
Series: Studies in mediaeval literature ;; v. 25;
Standard No: ISBN: 0773468455 (hc.); LCCN: 2002-45532
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
Mysticism in literature.
English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism.
Christian literature, Early -- Latin authors -- History and criticism.
Christian literature, English (Middle) -- History and criticism.
Christian literature, English (Old) -- History and criticism.
Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500.
Mysticism -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Fathers of the Church, Latin.
Class Descriptors: LC: PR275.M9; Dewey: 820.9/3524822
Responsibility: Charles M. Jenkins.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20021230
Update: 20030110
Accession No: OCLC: 51336443

Title: Lives in spirit : precursors and dilemmas of a secular Western mysticism /
Author(s): Hunt, Harry T., 1943-
Publication: Albany : State University of New York Press,
Projected Date: 0308
Year: 2003
Description: p. cm.
Language: English
Series: SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology;
Standard No: ISBN: 0791458032 (alk. paper); 0791458040 (pbk. : alk. paper); LCCN: 2002-45266
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Mysticism -- Psychology -- Case studies.
Secularism -- Psychology -- Case studies.
Spirituality -- Psychology -- Case studies.
Transpersonal psychology -- Case studies.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references and index.
Class Descriptors: LC: BL625; Dewey: 291.4/2
Responsibility: Harry T. Hunt.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20021220
Update: 20030101
Accession No: OCLC: 51290299

Title: Physician of the soul, healer of the cosmos : Isaac Luria and his kabbalistic fellowship /
Author(s): Fine, Lawrence.
Publication: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,
Projected Date: 0306
Year: 2003
Description: p. cm.
Language: English
Series: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture;
Contents: Introduction: embodying the study of Lurianic Kabbalah -- ch. 1. Rabbinical scholar, spice dealer, contemplative ascetic -- ch. 2. Lamenting the exile, striving for redemption -- ch. 3. Saintliness, heavenly communication, and the divinatory arts -- ch. 4. Lurianic myth -- ch. 5. Physician of the soul -- ch. 6. Tiqqun: healing the cosmos through the performance of mitsvot -- ch. 7. Tiqqun: healing the cosmos through contemplative prayer -- ch. 8. Communing with the "very special dead" -- ch. 9. Metempsychosis, mystical fellowship, and Messianic redemption.
Standard No: ISBN: 0804738254; 0804748268; LCCN: 2002-154139
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Cabala -- History.
Mysticism -- Judaism.
Judaism -- Israel -- Tsefat -- History.
Named Person: Luria, Isaac ben Solomon, 1534-1572. Luria, Isaac ben Solomon, 1534-1572 -- Disciples.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references and index.
Class Descriptors: LC: BM525.L835; Dewey: 296.8/33/092
Responsibility: Lawrence Fine.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20021119
Update: 20021128
Accession No: OCLC: 51093167

Title: Theology of the heart : the role of mysticism in the theology of Martin Luther /
Author(s): Hoffman, Bengt Runo, 1913- ; Hoffman, Pearl Willemssen.
Publication: Minneapolis, Minn. : Kirk House,
Projected Date: 0301
Year: 2003
Description: p. cm.
Language: English
Standard No: ISBN: 1886513554 (alk. paper); LCCN: 2002-40660
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Mysticism -- Lutheran Church -- History -- 16th century.
Named Person: Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references and index.
Class Descriptors: LC: BR333.5.M9; Dewey: 248.2/2/092
Other Titles: Hjärtats teologi. English
Responsibility: by Bengt Hoffman ; edited by Pearl Willemssen Hoffman.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20021030
Update: 20021110
Accession No: OCLC: 50982242

Title: The wisdom of Jacob Böhme /
Author(s): Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624. ; Versluis, Arthur,; 1959-
Publication: St. Paul, Minn. : New Grail,
Projected Date: 0301
Year: 2003
Language: English
Series: Great works of Christian spirituality ;; v. 2;
Contents: On spiritual life -- Dialogue with an enlightened soul -- On divine contemplation -- On nature -- On regeneration -- On freedom -- How to pray -- On death and the Last Judgement.
Standard No: ISBN: 0965048861 (alk. paper); LCCN: 2002-35803
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Mysticism. Theology, Doctrinal.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references and index.
Class Descriptors: LC: BV5095.B7; Dewey: 248.2/2
Other Titles: Selections. English. 2003
Responsibility: edited and with an introduction by Arthur Versluis.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20020917
Update: 20021209
Accession No: OCLC: 50684531

Title: Jan van Ruusbroec, mystical theologian of the Trinity /
Author(s): Van Nieuwenhove, Rik, 1967-
Publication: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press,
Projected Date: 0304
Year: 2003
Language: English
Series: Studies in spirituality and theology;
Standard No: ISBN: 0268032610 (cloth : alk. paper); 0268032629 (pbk. : alk. paper); LCCN: 2002-151531
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Mysticism -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Trinity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Named Person: Ruusbroec, Jan van, 1293-1381.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references and index.
Class Descriptors: LC: BV5095.J3; Dewey: 248.2/2/092
Responsibility: Rik Van Nieuwenhove.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20021008
Update: 20021013
Accession No: OCLC: 50774320

Title: Beholders of divine secrets : mysticism and myth in Hekhalot and merkavah literature /
Author(s): Arbel, Vita Daphna.
Publication: Albany : State University of New York Press,
Projected Date: 0305
Year: 2003
Description: p. cm.
Language: English
Standard No: ISBN: 0791457230 (alk. paper); 0791457249 (pbk. : alk. paper); LCCN: 2002-42638
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Mysticism -- Judaism.
Hekhalot literature -- History and criticism.
Merkava. Mythology, Jewish.
Note(s): Based on a doctoral thesis submitted to the Hebrew University, Jerusalem in 1997./ Includes bibliographical references and index.
Class Descriptors: LC: BM723; Dewey: 296.7/12
Responsibility: Vita Daphna Arbel.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20021107
Update: 20021110
Accession No: OCLC: 50982277

Title: The wisdom of John Pordage / Treatise of eternal nature with her seven eternal forms.
Author(s): Pordage, John, 1607-1681. ; Versluis, Arthur,; 1959- ; Hooker, Edward. ; Pordage, John,; 1607-1681. ;
Publication: St. Paul, Minn. : New Grail,
Projected Date: 0301
Year: 2003
Description: p. cm.
Language: English
Series: Great works of Christian spirituality ;; v. 3;
Standard No: ISBN: 096504887X (alk. paper); LCCN: 2002-35802
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Mysticism -- Early works to 1800.
Note(s): Drawn from the author's Theologia mystica (written with Edward Hooker) and his A treatise of eternal nature with her seven eternal forms./ Includes bibliographical references and index.
Class Descriptors: LC: BV5082.3; Dewey: 248.2/2 Other Titles: Theologia mystica; Treatise of eternal nature with her seven eternal forms.
Responsibility: [edited and introduced by Arthur Versluis].
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20020917
Update: 20020927
Accession No: OCLC: 50684527

Title: The wisdom of Meister Eckhart /
Author(s): Eckhart, Meister, d. 1327. ; Stryz, Jan. ; Versluis, Arthur,; 1959-
Publication: St. Paul, MN : New Grail,
Projected Date: 0301
Year: 2003
Description: p. cm.
Language: English
Series: Great works of Christian spirituality ;; v. 1;
Standard No: ISBN: 0965048853 (alk. paper); LCCN: 2002-35804
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Mysticism -- Sermons. Sermons, English.
Named Corp: Catholic Church -- Sermons.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references and index.
Class Descriptors: LC: BV5082.3; Dewey: 252/.02
Other Titles: Sermons. English. Selections
Responsibility: Selected and edited by Jan Stryz ; with an introduction by Arthur Versluis.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20020917
Update: 20021003
Accession No: OCLC: 50725349

Title: Voices of the turtledoves : the sacred world of Ephrata /
Author(s): Bach, Jeff, 1958-
Publication: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press,
Projected Date: 0304
Year: 2003
Description: p. cm.
Language: English
Series: Pennsylvania German history and culture series ;; no. 3;
Variation: Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society (2001).; Pennsylvania German history and culture series ;; no. 3.
Contents: 1. The religious thought of Ephrata : Conrad Beissel -- 2. The religious thought of Ephrata : other writers -- 3. "Holy church practices" : ritual at Ephrata -- 4. Manly virgins and virginal men : gender at Ephrata -- 5. "God's holy point of rest" : Ephrata's mystical language in space and time -- 6. Roses in the wilderness : Ephrata's manuscript art -- 7. "Heavenly magic" : hidden knowledge at Ephrata.
Standard No: ISBN: 0271022507 (alk. paper); LCCN: 2002-153329
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Mysticism -- Pennsylvania -- History.
Named Corp: Ephrata Cloister.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references and index.
Class Descriptors: LC: BX7817.P4; Dewey: 286/.3/097481
Responsibility: Jeff Bach.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20021104
Update: 20021110

Title: The heart and the fountain : an anthology of Jewish mystical experiences /
Author(s): Dan, Joseph,; 1935-
Publication: New York : Oxford University Press,
Year: 2002
Description: viii, 326 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Contents: Religion, mysticism, and language -- Jewish mysticism -- Jewish concept of language: the Midrash -- Historical outlines: late antiquity -- Historical outlines: the middle ages -- Historical outlines: the modern period -- The Christian Kabbalah -- The revelation of the secret of the world -- Visions of Rabbi Akibah and Rabbi Ishmael -- The deification of Enoch -- Rabbi Bahya Ibn Paquda: to see without eyes, to hear without ears -- Gabirol: God and the Universe -- Addressing an emanated godhead -- The voice of God over the water: the worship of the holy name -- The Rokeah: the devotion in prayer -- Divine will clothed in human will: the intention of prayer in early Kabbalah -- Abraham Abulafia: an apocalyptic vision -- The mystical immersion in names and letters: Shaarey Zedek -- Zohar: the beginning -- Rabbi Simeon bar Yohai and his society of mystics -- The Zohar: the wondrous child -- To write without pen and ink -- Joseph Della Reina: from experience to legend -- Walking with the Shekhinah: the palm tree of Devorah -- The messianic dreams of Rabbi Hayyim vital -- A prophetic vision by Nathan of Gaza -- Nathan of Gaza facing the monsters of evil: the myth of the Doenmeh -- Luzzatto: messianism and sanctity -- The mystical prayer of Rabbi Israel Ba'al Shem Tov-- Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav: a vision and a dream -- Bialik: mystical poetry and mystical language -- The sweet voice of the Lord: four contemporary Israeli poets.
Standard No: ISBN: 019513978X; LCCN: 2001-55485
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Mysticism -- Judaism.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-310) and index.
Class Descriptors: LC: BM723; Dewey: 296.7/12
Responsibility: edited by Joseph Dan.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20011101
Update: 20020926
Accession No: OCLC: 48383571

Title: Absorbing perfections : Kabbalah and interpretation /
Author(s): Idel, Moshe, 1947-
Publication: New Haven : Yale University Press,
Year: 2002
Description: xvii, 668 p. : 24 cm.
Language: English Contents: The world-absorbing text -- The God-absorbing text : black fire on white fire -- Text and interpretation affinities in Kabbalah -- The book that contains and maintains all -- Magical and magical-mystical arcanizations of canonical books -- Torah study and mystical experiences in Jewish mysticism -- Secrecy, binah, and derishah -- Semantics, constellation, and interpretation -- Radical forms of Jewish hermeneutics -- The symbolic mode of theosophical-theurgical Kabbalah -- Allegories, divine names, and experiences in ecstatic Kabbalah -- Tzerufei otiyyot : mutability and accommodation of the Torah in Jewish mysticism -- Tradition, transmission, and techniques -- Concluding remarks -- Appendix 1. Pardes : the fourfold method of interpretation -- Appendix 2. Abraham Abulafia's Torah of blood and ink -- Appendix 3. R. Isaac of Acre's exegetical quandary -- Appendix 4. The exile of the Torah and the imprisonment of secrets -- Appendix 5. On oral Torah and multiple interpretations in Hasidism -- Appendix 6. "Book of God"/"book of law" in late-fifteenth-century Florence.
Standard No: ISBN: 0300083793 (alk. paper); LCCN: 2001-6563
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Cabala -- History.
Title Subject: Bible. O.T. Pentateuch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-645) and index.
Class Descriptors: LC: BM526; Dewey: 296.1/6
Responsibility: Moshe Idel.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20011030
Update: 20021013
Accession No: OCLC: 48376069

Title: Sensible ecstasy : mysticism, sexual difference, and the demands of history /
Author(s): Hollywood, Amy M., 1963-
Publication: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,
Year: 2002
Description: xv, 371 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English Series: Religion and postmodernism;
Standard No: ISBN: 0226349519 (alk. paper); 0226349527 (pbk. : alk. paper); LCCN: 2001-37603
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Mysticism -- Psychology -- History. Women mystics -- Psychology -- History. Philosophy, French -- 20th century. Psychoanalysis and religion -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-357) and index.
Class Descriptors: LC: BV5083; Dewey: 248.2/2/09
Responsibility: Amy Hollywood.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20010611
Update: 20021025
Accession No: OCLC: 47224687

Title: Between exaltation and infamy : female mystics in the golden age of Spain /
Author(s): Haliczer, Stephen, 1942-
Publication: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,
Year: 2002
Description: vi, 349 p. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Standard No: ISBN: 0195148517 (cloth : alk. paper); 0195148630 (pbk. : alk. paper); LCCN: 2001-37314
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Mysticism -- Spain -- History -- 16th century.
Women mystics -- Spain -- History -- 16th century.
Mysticism -- Spain -- History -- 17th century.
Women mystics -- Spain -- History -- 17th century.
Geographic: Spain -- Church history -- 16th century.
Spain -- Church history -- 17th century.
Spain -- Church history -- 16th century.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-344) and index.
Class Descriptors: LC: BV5077.S7; Dewey: 248.2/2/0820946
Responsibility: Stephen Haliczer.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20010524
Update: 20021025
Accession No: OCLC: 47091970

Title: A transparent illusion : the dangerous vision of water in Hekhalot mysticism : a source-critical and tradition-historical inquiry /
Author(s): Morray-Jones, Christopher R. A.
Publication: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,
Year: 2002
Description: xiii, 322 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Series: Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism,; v. 59;
Standard No: ISBN: 9004113371 (hardcover : alk. paper); Series ISSN: 1384-2161 ;; National Library of Canada: 956120989; LCCN: 99-28682
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Water -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Mysticism -- Judaism. Title Subject: Heikhalot rabbati. Heikhalot zutrati.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references (p. [290]-305) and indexes.
Class Descriptors: LC: BM526; Dewey: 296.1
Responsibility: by C.R.A. Morray-Jones.
Vendor Info: Otto Harrassowitz (HARR) 89.00 DEM
Document Type: Book
Entry: 19990406
Update: 20020928
Accession No: OCLC: 41185118

Title: John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila : mystical knowing and selfhood /
Author(s): Howells, Edward.
Publication: New York : Crossroad Pub. Co.,
Year: 2002
Description: xi, 212 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Standard No: ISBN: 0824519434; LCCN: 2002-1695
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Mysticism -- Catholic Church -- History -- 16th century.
Named Person: John of the Cross, Saint, 1542-1591. Teresa, of Avila, Saint, 1515-1582.
Note(s): "A Herder and Herder book"./ Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-208) and index.
Class Descriptors: LC: BX4700.J7; Dewey: 248.2/2/0922
Responsibility: Edward Howells.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20020201
Update: 20020616
Accession No: OCLC: 48989284

Title: Inner Christianity : a guide to the esoteric tradition /
Author(s): Smoley, Richard, 1956-
Publication: Boston : Shambhala,
Year: 2002
Description: 292 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Standard No: ISBN: 1570628106 (pbk.); LCCN: 2002-4717
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Mysticism. Theosophy.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-277) and index.
Class Descriptors: LC: BV5083; Dewey: 248
Responsibility: Richard Smoley.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20020326
Update: 20021016
Accession No: OCLC: 49576797

Title: Medieval women mystics : Gertrude the Great, Angela of Foligno, Birgitta of Sweden, Julian of Norwich : selected spiritual writings /
Author(s): Obbard, Elizabeth Ruth,; 1945-
Publication: Hyde Park, NY : New City Press,
Year: 2002
Description: 158 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Standard No: ISBN: 1565481577; LCCN: 2001-51216
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Women mystics.
Mysticism -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Spiritual life -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references (p. 157).
Class Descriptors: LC: BV5095.A1; Dewey: 248.2/2/0922
Responsibility: edited by Elizabeth Ruth Obbard.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20010914
Update: 20021106
Accession No: OCLC: 48014708

Title: Crossing boundaries : essays on the ethical status of mysticism /
Author(s): Barnard, G. William; 1955- ; (George William),; Kripal, Jeffrey John,; 1962-
Publication: New York : Seven Bridges Press,
Year: 2002
Description: vi, 471 p. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Standard No: ISBN: 1889119326 (pbk.); 1889119253 (pbk.); LCCN: 2001-5521
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Mysticism. Religion and ethics.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references.
Class Descriptors: LC: BL625; Dewey: 291.4/22
Responsibility: [edited by] G. William Barnard, Jeffrey J. Kripal.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20010910
Update: 20020718
Accession No: OCLC: 47989814

Title: Transformed by love : the soul's journey to God in Teresa of Avila, Mother Aloysius of the Blessed Sacrament, Elizabeth of the Trinity /
Author(s): Sullivan, Shirley Darcus, 1945-
Publication: Hyde Park, NY : New City Press,
Year: 2002
Description: 125 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Standard No: ISBN: 1565481682; LCCN: 2001-51217
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Mysticism -- Catholic Church -- History.
Women mystics -- Biography.
Named Person: Teresa, of Avila, Saint, 1515-1582. Elizabeth of the Trinity, Sister, 1880-1906. Aloysius du Saint-Sacrement, mère.
Named Corp: Carmelite Nuns -- Biography.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-124).
Class Descriptors: LC: BV5082.3; Dewey: 248.2/2/0922
Responsibility: Shirley Darcus Sullivan.
Material Type: Biography (bio)
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20010914
Update: 20020328
Accession No:OCLC: 48014712

Title: Ascent of Mount Carmel /
Author(s): John of the Cross, Saint, 1542-1591. ; Carrigan, Henry L.,; 1954-
Publication: Brewster, Mass. : Paraclete Press,
Year: 2002
Description: xx, 172 p. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Series: Christian classics;
Variation: Christian classics (Brewster, Mass)
Standard No: ISBN: 1557253064 (pbk.); LCCN: 2002-8368
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Mysticism -- Catholic Church
Class Descriptors: LC: BV5082.3; Dewey: 248.2/2
Responsibility: John of the Cross ; edited and modernized by Henry L. Carrigan, Jr.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20020530
Update: 20021101
Accession No: OCLC: 50035296

Title: The voice of God on Mount Sinai : rabbinic commentaries on Exodus 20:1 in the light of Sufi and Zen-Buddhist texts /
Author(s): Neudecker, Reinhard, 1938-
Publication: Roma : Pontificio Istituto biblico,
Year: 2002
Description: xvi, 157 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English; Includes rabbinic texts in the original Hebrew (p. [129]-139).
Series: Subsidia Biblica ;; 23;
Standard No: ISBN: 8876536191
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Revelation on Sinai.
God -- Knowableness -- Comparative studies.
Judaism -- Relations -- Buddhism.
Zen Buddhism -- Relations -- Judaism.
Sufism.
Mysticism in rabbinical literature.
Title Subject: Bible. O.T. Exodus XX, 1 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. O.T. Exodus XX, 1 -- Criticism, Textual.
Bible. O.T. Exodus XX, 1 -- Buddhist interpretations.
Bible. O.T. Exodus XX, 1 -- Islamic interpretations.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-157) and indexes.
Class Descriptors: LC: BS1245.52; Dewey: 222
Other Titles: Rabbinic commentaries on Exodus 20:1 in the light of Sufi and Zen-Buddhist texts Responsibility: Reinhard Neudecker.
Vendor Info: Otto Harrassowitz Casalini Libri (HARR CASA) 17.50 DEM 15.00 EUR
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20021212»
Update: 20021217
Accession No: OCLC: 51213422

Title: Zur Rezeption mystischer Traditionen im Protestantismus des 16. bis 19. Jahrhunderts : Beiträge eines Symposiums zum Tersteegen-Jubiläum 1997 /
Author(s): Meyer, Dietrich. ; Sträter, Udo.
Publication: Köln : Rheinland-Verlag,
Year: 2002
Description: xvii, 350 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language: German; German, English, and French.
Series: Schriftenreihe des Vereins für Rheinische Kirchengeschichte ;; Bd. 152;
Standard No: ISBN: 3792718286; LCCN: 2002-444285
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Mysticism -- Germany -- History -- Modern period, 1500-
Protestantism -- Germany -- History.
Named Person: Tersteegen, Gerhard, 1697-1769.
Geographic: Germany -- Church history.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references and index.
Class Descriptors: LC: BR857.R5
Responsibility: herausgegeben von Dietrich Meyer und Udo Strater.
Material Type: Biography (bio)
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20000322
Update: 20021025
Accession No: OCLC: 49715187

Title: Gershom Scholem : un juif allemand à Jérusalem /
Author(s): Hayoun, Maurice R.
Publication: Paris : Presses universitaires de France,
Year: 2002
Description: 292 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: French
Series: Questions classiques;
Standard No: ISBN: 213051790X
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Mysticism -- Judaism -- Historiography.
Cabala -- Historiography.
Named Person: Scholem, Gershom Gerhard, 1897- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Identifier: German Judaism; 19th-20th Century
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-292)
Class Descriptors: LC: BM755.S295; Dewey: 296
Responsibility: Maurice-Ruben Hayoun.
Vendor Info: Jean Touzot Libraire Editeur (TOUZ) 22,50 EURO
Material Type: Biography (bio)
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20020613
Update: 20021119
Accession No: OCLC: 50085552

Title: A strange tongue : tradition, language, and the appropriation of mystical experience in late fourteenth-century England and sixteenth-century Spain /
Author(s): Green, John D., 1932-
Publication: Leuven ; Dudley, Mass. : Peeters, Projected Date: 0212
Year: 2002
Description: p. cm.
Language: English
Series: Studies in spirituality.; Supplement ;; 9;
Standard No: ISBN: 9042912367 (alk. paper); LCCN: 2002-35462
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Mysticism -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Discernment of spirits -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Mysticism -- Spain -- History -- 16th century.
Discernment of spirits -- History of doctrines -- 16th century.
Named Person: Julian, of Norwich, b. 1343. Hilton, Walter, d. 1396. Ignatius, of Loyola, Saint, 1491-1556. John of the Cross, Saint, 1542-1591.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references.
Class Descriptors: LC: BV5077.G7; Dewey: 248.2/2/0942
Responsibility: John D. Green.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20020905
Update: 20020922
Accession No: OCLC: 50645394

Title: The dictionary of the esoteric /
Author(s): Drury, Nevill, 1947-
Publication: [S.l.] : Watkins,
Year: 2002
Description: 1 v.
Language: English
Standard No: ISBN: 1842930419
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Mysticism -- Dictionaries.
Occultism -- Dictionaries.
Class Descriptors: Dewey: 133
Responsibility: Nevill Drury.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20020328
Update: 20020410
Accession No: OCLC: 49552179

Title: Thinking God : the mysticism of Rabbi Zadok of Lublin /
Author(s): Brill, Alan.
Publication: Hoboken, N.J. : Ktav Publishing House,
Projected Date: 0207
Year: 2002
Language: English
Standard No: ISBN: 0881257265; LCCN: 2002-23598
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Mysticism -- Judaism.
Hasidism. Rabbis -- Poland -- Biography.
Named Person: Zadok, ha-Kohen, of Lublin, 1823-1900 -- Contributions in Jewish mysticism.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references and index.
Class Descriptors: LC: BM755.Z32; Dewey: 296.8/332/092; B
Responsibility: Alan Brill.
Material Type: Biography (bio)
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20020313
Update: 20020322
Accession No:OCLC: 49375165

Title: Hi shinpi shugi : Ekkuharuto to Zen /
Author(s): Ueda, Shizuteru, 1926-
Publication: Tokyo : Iwanami Shoten,
Year: 2002
Description: vii, 346 p. ; 20 cm.
Language: Japanese
Series: Ueda Shizuteru shu ;; dai 8-kan;»Variation: Ueda, Shizuteru,; 1926-; Selections.; 2001 ;; dai 8-kan.
Standard No: ISBN: 4000924680; LCCN: 2002-400816
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Mysticism -- Germany.
Mysticism -- Zen Buddhism.
Zen Buddhism.
Named Person: Eckhart, Meister, d.1327.
Class Descriptors: LC: B5244.; BV5095.E3
Responsibility: [chosha Ueda Shizuteru].
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20020708
Update: 20020904
Accession No: OCLC: 50539991

Title: The mystical writings of Madeleine de Saint-Joseph du Bois de Fontaines (1578-1637) /
Author(s): Evans, Jean Neva.
Publication: [S.l. : s.n.],
Year: 2002
Description: ix, 237 leaves.
Language: English
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Carmelite Nuns -- France.
Carmelites -- France.
Mysticism -- France.
Named Person: DuBois de Fontaines, Madeleine de Saint-Joseph, 1578-1637.
Note(s): Wordprocessed copy./ Includes bibliographical references./ Dissertation: Thesis (D. Th.)--University of South Africa, 2002.
Class Descriptors: Dewey: 255.971092
Responsibility: by Jean Neva Evans.
Material Type: Thesis/dissertation (deg)
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20020820
Update: 20021008
Accession No: OCLC: 50432408

Title: The Poimandres group in Corpus Hermeticum : myth, mysticism, and gnosis in Late Antiquity /
Author(s): Peste, Jonathan.
Year: 2002
Description: 234 p.
Language: English
Standard No: ISBN: 9188348261
SUBJECT(S)
Identifier: Poimandres.; Corpus Hermeticum.; Hermetism.; Gnosticism.; Nag Hammadi.; Zosimos of Panopolis.; Egypt.; Late Antiquity.; Hellenism.; Hellenistic religions.; Greco-Roman religions.; Syncretism.; Mysticism.; esoteric traditions.; alchemy.; Rebirth.; Primal man.; heavenly ascent.; Goddess.; Sophia.; Demiurge.
Note(s): Dissertation: Thesis (doctoral)--Göteborgs universitet, 2002.
Responsibility: Jonathan Peste.
Material Type: Thesis/dissertation (deg); Manuscript text (mtx)
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20020417
Update: 20020701
Accession No: OCLC: 49604622

Title: Mysticism and contemporary society : some Teilhardian reflections /
Author(s): King, Ursula. Publication: [Lewisburg, Pa.] : American Teilhard Association,
Year: 2002
Description: 20 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Series: Teilhard studies ;; no. 44;
Standard No: ISBN: 0890120862
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Mysticism -- History -- 20th century.
Spirituality. Religion and sociology.
Named Person: Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre -- Contributions in spirituality.
Note(s): Reprinted from Contemporary Spiritualities, C. & J. Erricker, eds. (New York : Continuum, 2001)./ Includes bibliographical references.
Class Descriptors: LC: B2430.T374
Responsibility: Ursula King.
Material Type: Biography (bio)
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20030103
Update: 20030103
Accession No: OCLC: 51302123

Title: A rational ecstasy : language and mystical experience in Plotinus /
Author(s): Eakin, William R.
Year: 2002
Description: 262 leaves ; 28 cm.
Language: English
SUBJECT(S)
Named Person: Plotinus -- Contributions in metaphysics. Plotinus -- Contributions in mysticism.
Note(s): "August 2002."/ Includes bibliographical references (leaves 258-262)./ Dissertation: Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 2002.
Class Descriptors: LC: B693.Z7
Responsibility: by William R. Eakin.
Material Type: Thesis/dissertation (deg); Manuscript text (mtx)
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20021203
Update: 20021203
Accession No: OCLC: 51111970

Title: The bride as symbol : Mechthild von Magdeburg and the logic of mysticism /
Author(s): Davis, Emily Hillquist.
Year: 2002
Description: x, 234 leaves ; 29 cm.
Language: English
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references./ Dissertation: Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington University, 2002. Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures.
Class Descriptors: LC: LD5791.8.PhD2002
Responsibility: by Emily Hillquist Davis.
Material Type: Thesis/dissertation (deg); Manuscript text (mtx)
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20021118
Update: 20021118
Accession No: OCLC: 51028425

Title: St John of the Cross : songs in the night /
Author(s): Thompson, Colin P.
Publication: London : SPCK,
Year: 2002
Description: 320 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English; Text in English and Spanish.
Standard No: ISBN: 0281055068
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Mysticism in literature.
Mysticism -- Catholic Church.
Theology in literature.
Named Person: John, of the Cross, Saint, 1542-1591 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Class Descriptors: Dewey: 861.3
Responsibility: Colin Thompson.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20020928
Update: 20021008
Accession No: OCLC: 50746636

Title: A feast of straw the nature mysticism of Thomas Merton.
Author(s): Page, Christopher, 1954-
Publication: Ottawa : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada,
Year: 2002
Description: 2 microfiches.
Language: English
Series: Canadian theses = Thèses canadiennes.;
Standard No: ISBN: 0612613232; National Library of Canada: 20022081682
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references./ Dissertation: Thesis (Th. M.)--Vancouver School of Theology, 2001.
Class Descriptors: NLC: Mic.F. TJ- 61323
Material Type: Thesis/dissertation (deg); Microform (mic)
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20020524
Update: 20021021
Accession No: OCLC: 50721145

Title: The contribution of an evaluative comparison between Pauline and Johannine "mysticism" to New Testament theology /
Author(s): Pereira, Gregory C.
Publication: [S.l. : s.n.],
Year: 2002
Description: viii, 471 leaves.
Language: English
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Mysticism.
Title Subject: Bible. N.T. Epistles of Paul.
Bible. N.T. Epistles of John.
Bible. N.T. -- Theology.
Note(s): Bibliography: leaves 454-471./ Dissertation: Thesis (D.Litt. et Phil.)--Rand Afrikaans University, 2002.
Class Descriptors: Dewey: 291.422
Responsibility: by "Piff" Gregory C. Pereira.
Material Type: Thesis/dissertation (deg); Manuscript text (mtx)
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20021007
Update: 20021007
Accession No: OCLC: 50739616

Title: Deonise Hid diuinite, and other treatises on contemplative prayer related to the Cloud of unknowing: A tretyse of Þe stodye of wysdome Þat men clepen Beniamyn. A pistle of preier. A pistle of discrecioun of stirings. A tretis of discrescyon of spirites /
Author(s): Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite. ; Hodgson, Phyllis.
Publication: London : Published for the Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press,
Year: 2002, 1955
Description: lvii, 158 p. : facsim. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Series: Early English Text Society (Series).; Original series ;; 231;
Standard No: ISBN: 0859916987 pbk.
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Mysticism -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Note(s): An unaltered reprint of the edition first published in 1955./ "Prepared as the complement of the ... Cloud of unknowing and the Book of privy counselling."/ Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [118]-143).
Other Titles: Cloud of unknowing.
Responsibility: edited by Phyllis Hodgson.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20020604
Update: 20020721

Title: A.W. Tozer
the spiritual formation of a prophet-mystic / 
Author(s): Evearitt, Daniel J. 
Year: 2001 
Description: 17 leaves ; p., 28 cm. 
Language: English 
Series: Variation: Evangelical Theological Society papers ;; ETS-0922. 
 SUBJECT(S) 
Descriptor: Spirituality. 
Named Person: Tozer, A. W. (Aiden Wilson), 1897-1963. 
Note(s): Paper presented at the Southeastern Regional Conference meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, Toccoa, GA, March 16-17, 2001./ Includes bibliographical notes./ Reproduction: Microfiche./ Portland, Or. :/ Theological Research Exchange Network,/ 2001./ 1 microfiche : negative./ (Evangelical Theological Society papers ; ETS-0922). 
Class Descrpt: LC: BR21; Dewey: 922.6673 
Other Titles: A. W. Tozer 
Responsibility: Daniel J. Evearitt. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20010720 
Update: 20011018 
Accession No: OCLC: 47597245 

Title: The wisdom of the mystic East :
Suhrawardi and platonic orientalism / 
Author(s): Walbridge, John. 
Publication: Albany : State University of New York Press, 
Year: 2001 
Description: xiii, 170 p. : p., ill. ;, 23 cm. 
Language: English 
Series: SUNY series in Islam; 
Standard No: ISBN: 0791450511 (alk. paper); 079145052X (pbk. : alk. paper); LCCN: 2001-20750 
 SUBJECT(S) 
Descriptor: Ishraqiyah. 
Philosophy, Islamic -- Greek influences. 
Named Person: Suhrawardi, Yahyá ibn Habash, 1152 or 3-1191. 
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-155) and index. 
Class Descrpt: LC: B753.S83; Dewey: 181/.5 
Responsibility: John Walbridge. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20010312 
Update: 20011115 
Accession No: OCLC: 46462705 

Title: Medicine, magic and religion :
the Fitzpatrick Lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1915 and 1916 / 
Author(s): Rivers, W. H. R. 1864-1922.  (William Halse Rivers), 
Publication: London : Routledge, 
Year: 2001 1924 
Description: viii, 136 p. ; p., 20 cm. 
Language: English 
Series: Routledge classics; 
Standard No: ISBN: 0415254035 
 SUBJECT(S) 
Descriptor: Medical anthropology. 
Traditional medicine -- Psychological aspects. 
Traditional medicine -- Religious aspects. 
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric. 
Note(s): Originally published: London : Kegan Paul, Trench and Trubner, 1924./ Includes index. 
Class Descrpt: Dewey: 306.461 
Responsibility: W.H.R. Rivers ; with a preface by G. Elliot Smith. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20010611 
Update: 20010910 
Accession No: OCLC: 46651297 

Title: Spiritual merchants :
religion, magic, and commerce / 
Author(s): Long, Carolyn Morrow. 
Publication: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press,
Edition: 1st ed. 
Year: 2001 
Description: xxix, 314 p. : p., ill. ;, 23 cm. 
Language: English 
Standard No: ISBN: 1572331097 (cloth); 1572331100 (pbk.); LCCN: 00-9886 
 SUBJECT(S) 
Descriptor: Charms -- United States. 
Talismans -- United States. 
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric -- United States. 
Afro-Americans -- Religion. 
Afro-Caribbean cults -- United States. 
Religious articles -- United States. 
Religious supplies industry -- United States. 
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-302) and index. 
Class Descrpt: LC: GR105; Dewey: 299/.64 
Responsibility: Carolyn Morrow Long. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20000608 
Update: 20011012 
Accession No: OCLC: 44425355   

Title: Divine love in Islamic mysticism : the teachings of al-Ghazâlî and al-Dabbâgh /
Author(s): Abrahamov, Binyamin.
Publication: London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon,
Year: 2003
Description: xii, 190 p. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Series: RoutledgeCurzon Sufi series;
Standard No: ISBN: 0700716076; LCCN: 2002-31603
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: God (Islam) -- Worship and love. Sufism -- Doctrines.
Named Person: Ghazzali, 1058-1111. Dabbagh, ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad, 1208 or 9-1299 or 1300.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-186) and index.
Class Descriptors: LC: BP189.65.L68; Dewey: 297.4/1112
Responsibility: Binyamin Abrahamov.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20020731
Update: 20021213
Accession No: OCLC: 50294883

Title: Evelyn Underhill : essential writings /
Author(s): Underhill, Evelyn, 1875-1941. ; Griffin, Emilie.
Publication: Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, Projected Date: 0303
Year: 2003
Description: p. cm.
Language: English
Series: Modern spiritual masters series;
Contents: Introduction: The practical mystic / by Emilie Griffin -- The practical mystic -- The house of the soul -- Aspects of mysticism -- The soul's journey -- Worship -- Letters of spiritual direction -- Glory.
Standard No: ISBN: 1570754713 (pbk.); LCCN: 2002-15367
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Mysticism.
Spiritual life -- Anglican Communion.
Class Descriptors: LC: BV5082.3; Dewey: 248.2/2
Other Titles: Selections. 2003
Responsibility: selected with an introduction by Emilie Griffin.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20020918
Update: 20020925
Accession No: OCLC: 50669966

Title: The life of Evelyn Underhill : an intimate portrait of the groundbreaking author of Mysticism /
Author(s): Cropper, Margaret. Publication: Woodstock, Vt. : SkyLight Paths Pub.,
Edition: 1st SkyLight Paths Pub. ed.
Year: 2003, 1958
Description: xxiii, 259 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Series: SkyLight lives;
Standard No: ISBN: 1893361705; LCCN: 2002-13528
SUBJECT(S)
Named Person: Underhill, Evelyn, 1875-1941.
Note(s): Originally published: 1958. With new foreword./ Includes index.
Class Descriptors: LC: BV5095.U5; Dewey: 248.2/2/092; B
Responsibility: Margaret Cropper ; with a new foreword by Dana Greene.
Document Type: Book Entry: 20020821
Update: 20021121
Accession No: OCLC: 50496342

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