Author: Kimberley Christine Patton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: reflexivity, paradox, ritual, gods, religion
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2009-02-09
List price: $74.00
ISBN-10: 019509106X
ISBN-13: 9780195091069

In many of the world’s religions, both polytheistic and monotheistic, a seemingly enigmatic and paradoxical image is found--that of the god who worships. Various interpretations of this seeming paradox have been advanced. Some suggest that it represents sacrifice to a higher deity. Proponents of anthropomorphic projection say that the gods are just "big people" and that images of human religious action are simply projected onto the deities. However, such explanations do not do justice to the complexity and diversity of this phenomenon.In Religion of the Gods, Kimberley C. Patton uses a

Authors:Werner Huber, Martin Middeke, Hubert Zapf,
Publisher: Königshausen & Neumann
Keywords: literature, reflexivity
Number of Pages: 269
Published: 2005
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 3826032497
ISBN-13: 9783826032493

Author: Jeffrey J. Kripal
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: reflexivity, study, mysticism, eroticism, wisdom, excess, palaces, roads
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2001-12-01
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0226453782
ISBN-13: 9780226453781

William Blake once wrote that "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." Inspired by these poetic terms, Jeffrey J. Kripal reveals how the works of scholars of mysticism are often rooted in their own mystical experiences, "roads of excess," which can both lead to important insights into these scholars’ works and point us to our own "palaces of wisdom."In his new book, Kripal addresses the twentieth-century study of mysticism as a kind of mystical tradition in its own right, with its own unique histories, discourses, sociological dynamics, and rhetorics of secrecy. Fluidly combin

Author: Barry Sandywell
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: investigations, logological, one, vol, volume, crisis, reason, reflexivity, western
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 1996-02-05
List price: $260.00
ISBN-10: 0415087562
ISBN-13: 9780415087568

This ground breaking work explores the genealogical analysis of the discourses of reflection. Barry Sandywell traces the differences between the traditional discourses of reflection and the experiences of reflexivity in everyday, social and philosophical thought. Brilliantly organised and abounding with astonishing insights, Reflexivity and the Crisis of Western Reason offers a fundamental challenge to our normal ways of viewing social thought.