Mysticism is a concept that famously, perhaps even by definition, refuses to be pinned down. In 1911, the English writer Evelyn Underhill called it “a certain spiritual and intangible quest: the ...

A groundbreaking international research initiative, the Program in the Study of Mysticism (PRISM) is bringing renewed scholarly attention to one of humanity’s most profound yet historically ...

Chapter 2: Institutionalization and the Underground Stream—The Dual Structure in the Middle AgesSection 2: The Underground ...

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Andrew Louth criticizes “mysticism” as a controversial or useless word. In the introduction to her book Writing the Icon of the Heart, Maggie Ross makes this rather in-your-face claim: The word ...

Each of the Abrahamic faiths — Judaism, Christianity and Islam — has a mystical path. Jews call their tradition Kabbalah. Muslims have Sufism. And Christians have, well, the mystics. (Though until ...

Does mysticism have a place in quantum mechanics today, or is the idea that the mind plays a role in creating reality best left to philosophical meditations? Harvard historian Juan Miguel Marin argues ...

“A life of prayer is an absolutely universal human vocation,” said Cardinal Daniélou, which makes it a “political problem” as well. A child prays during Mass at the Regina Mundi Catholic Church in ...

Christian mysticism isn’t just abstract theology—it’s been part of the faith since the very beginning. Long before modern ...

Nan Goodman doesn’t spend much time wondering what Madonna, Mick Jagger or Ashton Kutcher may have gotten from dabbling in the “Kabbalah trend” of the early 2000s. What concerns Goodman are what ...