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Ch. 2: Did William James Get Mysticism Wrong? https://youtu.be/2CZ3zJGT4ZQ
Ch. 3: The Debate that (Almost) Broke Mysticism https://youtu.be/n_RJQS-JRwM
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Understanding Mysticism: Join us as we attempt to understand what this word meant historically, how it came to mean what it does today, and what, if anything, it might mean for us going forward.
Exploring the history of an idea, the story of the major developments in our collective understanding of the word mysticism itself.
Examining how this category was formed, transformed, discussed and debated throughout the ages. Join us for a journey from the Ancient Greek mystery religions, through the first few Christian centuries up into the Middle Ages, through the Renaissance, into the Early Modern period, the Enlightenment and finally end with the Modern and Post-Modern decades of its study, debate and development.
00:00 Intro
00:48 Shout out
02:36 What we’re doing
03:19 Disclaimers
05:07 The Scholars
06:48 The Etymology of Mysticism, Silence, Secrecy and Initiation
11:18 100CE: The Mystery of the Divine, Mysticism as a Christian Hermeneutical Adjective
18:01 Middle Ages: 5th to 15th Century, Unio and Theologia
19:39 Early Modern Period: 1500-1800, End of an Era
20:37 16th-17th Century: The Nouning of Mysticism
22:55 17th-18th Century: The Fabrication of Mysticism
25:28 18th Century: Mysticism as Disappointed Love
26:59 18th Century Enlightenment: Mysticism as a Sect
29:03 Mid 18th Century: Mysticism and Modernity
30:27 Early 19th Century: Schleiermacher 1799
31:24 1858: Britannica: The Expansion of Mysticism
33:42 1856: Vaughan: Cosmopolitan Mysticism
34:52 1836: New England: The Making of Modern Mysticism
36:16 Early 19th Century: Transcendentalism
39:13 Late 19th Century: Second Wave
45:22 Next up: 20th Century: The Modern Study of Mysticism:
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Bibliography:
Louis Bouyer, “Mysticism: An Essay on the History of the Word,” In Understanding Mysticism, by Richard Woods (ed.), Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980.
Bernard McGinn, The Foundations of Mysticism, Vol. I of The Presence of God: A History of Western Christian Mysticism, Crossroad Publishing, 1991.
Jeffrey Kripal, “Mysticism” in The Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion, by Robert Segal (ed.), 2017.
The Making of Modern “Mysticism” Leigh Eric Schmidt, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol. 71, No. 2 (Jun., 2003), Oxford University Press.
Michel de Certeau, The Mystic Fable: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, University of Chicago Press, 1982
Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh, Defining Mysticism, A Survey of Main Definitions, London Academy of Iranian Studies, 2008.
Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh, “The ‘Mystical’ and the ‘Modern’: Mutual Entanglement and Multiple interactions,” in Studies in Religion, 2020.
