Yoga, Meditation, and Mysticism | Free Book

Yoga, Meditation, and Mysticism | Free Book

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Contemplative Universals and Meditative Landmarks
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing
Published:September 2016
ISBN:9781472571694
Title:Yoga, Meditation, and Mysticism
Author:Kenneth Rose
Imprint:Bloomsbury Academic
Language:English
Number of Pages:224
Contemplative experience is central to Hindu yoga traditions, Buddhist meditation practices, and Catholic mystical theology, and, despite doctrinal differences, it expresses itself in suggestively similar meditative landmarks in each of these three meditative systems.

In Yoga, Meditation and Mysticism, Kenneth Rose shifts the dominant focus of contemporary religious studies away from tradition-specific studies of individual religious traditions, communities, and practices to examine the 'contemplative universals' that arise globally in meditative experience. Through a comparative exploration of the itineraries detailed in the contemplative manuals of Theravada Buddhism, PataƱjalian Yoga, and Catholic mystical theology, Rose identifies in each tradition a moment of sharply focused awareness that marks the threshold between immersion in mundane consciousness and contemplative insight. As concentration deepens, the meditator steps through this threshold onto a globally shared contemplative itinerary, which leads through a series of virtually identical stages to mental stillness and insight. Rose argues that these contemplative universals, familiar to experienced contemplatives in multiple traditions, point to a common spiritual, mental, and biological heritage.

Pioneering the exploration of contemplative practice and experience with a comparative perspective that ranges over multiple religious traditions, religious studies, philosophy, neuroscience, and the cognitive science of religion, this book is a landmark contribution to the fields of contemplative practice and religious studies.

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Rose's work showcases the continuing utility of comparative study and CSR, and will be of value to scholars and practitioners interested in perennialism, comparative study of religion, mysticism, and cognitive study of religion.


About the Author

Kenneth Rose is Senior Research Fellow,Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California, USA, and Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Christopher Newport University, Virginia, USA. He is the author of Pluralism: The Future of Religion (2013) and Knowing the Real: John Hick on the Cognitivity of Religions and Religious Pluralism (1996) as well as numerous academic articles and reviews.

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