Overview: Brings together a group of practitioner-scholars on the topic of ineffability and silence.Takes mysticism seriously, analyzing it for what it is, rather than attempting to reduce it to something else..The authors in this volume explore a wide variety of the contemporary approaches to mystical and religious experience to elucidate what religious experience is, in its own terms, and how its practitioners understand it. This anthology features contributions that point out that contemporary studies of consciousness, sociology, hermeneutics, neuroscience, medicine, and other fields, are r
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