• DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-79096-1_8
Corpus ID: 149635749

Mysticism in Translation: Psychological Advances, Cautionary Tales

@inproceedings{Parsons2018MysticismIT,
  title={Mysticism in Translation: Psychological Advances, Cautionary Tales},
  author={W. B. Parsons},
  year={2018}
}

W. B. Parsons

Published 2018

This study, which is intended to inform and guide at a “meta”-level, seeks to provide genealogical, historical, and methodological clarity vis-a-vis the encounter between psychology and mysticism. The first section offers a genealogy of the cousin terms mysticism and spirituality, tracing their development from a western, churched context to an unchurched, psychological one, culminating in James’ definitional strategy in his Varieties and Michel de Certeau’s nuanced portrait of the historical… CONTINUE READING

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