MYSTICISM & RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE

Barr, Jessica.  Willing to Know God:  Dreamers and Visionaries in the Later Middle Ages.  Columbus, OH:  Ohio State University Press, 2010.  Pp. x, 262. 

Benevides, Gustavo. "Tautology and Contradiction in the Language of Mysticism. Phd. Diss: Temple University, 1993.

Billington, Ray.  Religion without God.  London / New York: Routledge, 2002.

Brainard, F. Samuel.  Reality and Mystical Experience.  University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.

Caciola, Nancy.  Discerning Spirits:  Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages.  Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past.  Ithaca NY:  Cornell University Press, 2003.

Dasgupta, Surendranath. Hindu Mysticism.  New York:  F. Ungar Pub. Co., 1959.

Fanning, Steven.  Mystics of the Christian Tradition.  London / New York:  Routledge, 2001.

Forman. Robert K.C.  The Innate Capacity: Mysticism, Psychology, and Philosophy. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Gellman, Jerome I.  Mystical Experience of God:   A Philosophical Inquiry.  Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2001.

Greene, Dana.  Evelyn Underhill: Modern Guide to the Ancient Quest for the Holy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988.

William Harmless, Mystics  Oxford / New York:  Oxford University Press, 2009.

Holm, Nils G. (ed.) Religious Ecstasy.  Stockholm, Sweden: Distributed by Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1982.

Katz, Steven T. (ed.). Mysticism and Language. New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.

________ (ed.).  Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis. New York : Oxford University Press, 1978.

Riehle, Wolfgang. The Secret Within: Hermits, Recluses, and Spiritual Outsiders in Medieval England. Translated by Charity Scott-Stokes. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014.

Ruffing, Janet K.  (ed.) Mysticism and Social Transformation.  Syracuse:  Syracuse University Press, 2001.

Sears, Robert Eugene, and Ralph W. Hood, "Dreaming Mystical Experience among Christians and Hindus: The Impact of Culture, Language, and Religious Participation on Responses to the Dreaming Mysticism Scale." Mental Health, Religion, & Culture 19 (2016): 833-46.

Schimmel, Annemarie.  Mystical Dimensions of Islam. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1975.

Shuger, Dale. "The Language of Mysticism and the Language of Law in Early Modern Spain." Renaissance Quarterly 68 (2015): 932-57.

Voaden, R.  God’s Words, Women’s Voices.  The Discernment of Spirits in the Writings of Late-Medieval Women Visionaries.  York: York University Medieval Press, 1999.

Watts, Alan.  This Is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience.  New York: Vintage Books, 1973.

Weithaus, Ulrike, ed.  Maps of Flesh and Light:  The Religious Experience of Medieval Women Mystics.  Syracuse:  Syracuse University Press, 1992.

Weiss, Shira Wolosky. Language Mysticism: The Negative Way of Language in Eliot, Beckett, and Celan. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995.

Zaehner, Robert Charles. Mysticism, Sacred and Profane;   An Inquiry into Some Varieties of Praeternatural Experience. London, Oxford University Press, 1961.