Mystics and Scholars: The Calgary Conference on Mysticism 1976 Contributor(s): Coward, Harold (Editor), Penelhum, Terence (Author) |
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ISBN: 091981204X ISBN-13: 9780919812048 Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: March 1977 Click for more in this series: Sr Supplements |
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BISAC Categories: - Religion | Monasticism - Religion | Comparative Religion - Education | Research |
Dewey: 291 |
LCCN: 85198423 |
Series: Sr Supplements |
Physical Information: 118 pages |
Themes: - Topical - New Age |
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Publisher Description: In September of 1976 a group of some fifty scholars and practising mystics gathered at the University of Calgary. The chief objective of the Conference was to ponder and assess the nature of mysticism in its Eastern, Western and North American Indian forms. The method the Conference followed was somewhat unusual in that it aimed at a dialogue between the practising mystics and the scholars. What this book presents to the reader is not the outcome of the dialogue, but the personal statements and papers from which the dialogue began. Of course there is a degree to which the dialogue is already present, in that the papers of the scholars were written with the statements of the mystics in hand. Among some of the philosophers present, a set of more formal comments on each others presentations was recorded and these have been included. |
Contributor Bio(s): Coward, Harold: - Harold Coward is a professor of history and director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria. Penelhum, Terence: -Terence Penelhum is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Calgary, and is a graduate of Edinburgh and Oxford. He has written Survival and Disembodied Existence, Religion and Rationality and Hume. |
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