Secret body erotic and esoteric currents in the history of religions /: erotic and esoteric currents in the history of religions. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jeffrey J. Kripal.
• Other Names: Kripal, Jeffrey J (Jeffrey John), 1962-
• Contents: Opening: 'You Should Write Fiction' Corpus 1 In the Land of Oz: Childhood and Adolescence Letter to the Editor: The Buyer's Guide (1977) 2 'My Eros Has Been Crucified': Puberty, Asceticism, and Neurosis On the Fiction of a Straight Jesus (2008) 3 That Night: Wherein the Knowing Energies Zap Me The Preface that I Did Not Publish (ca. 1994) 4 The Erotic Mystic: Kālī's Child and the Backlash against It Secret Talk: Sexual Identity and the Politics of Scholarship in the Study of Hindu Tantrism (2000) 5 The Transmoral Mystic: What Both the Moralists and the Devotees Get Wrong Inside-Out, Outside-In: Existential Place and Academic Method in the Study of North American Guru Traditions (1999) 6 How They Really Came to Their Ideas: The Deeper Roots of Thought and Theory The Visitation of the Stranger: On Some Mystical Dimensions of the History of Religions (1999) 7 The Gnostic Reversal: The Snake that Bites Its Own Tail Gnosisssss: A Response to Wouter Hanegraaff (2008) 8 Wendy's Student: Mythical Paradox and Political Censorship Being Blake: Antinomian Thought, Counterculture, and the Art of the History of Religions (2010) Mysticum 9 That Other Night: The Future of the Body and Evolutionary Esotericism Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion (2007) 10 The Filter Thesis: The Irreducible Nature of Mind and the Spirit of the Humanities An Island in Mind: Aldous Huxley and the Neurotheologian (2013) 11 The Rise of the Paranormal: And Some Related X Factors in the Study of Religion Authors of the Impossible: Reading the Paranormal Writing Us (2010–2014) The Matter of Myth and the Myth of Matter (2011) 12 La Pensée Surhumaine: Paraphysics, the Super Story, and Invisible Colleges Forbidden Science: A Late Night Chat with Jacques Vallée (January 24, 2012) La Madonna dell'UFO (2015) 13 Comparing Religions in Public: Family, Evangelicals, and the Prophetic Function of the Humanities The Chess Game (February 22, 2015) 14 The Super Natural: Biological Gods, the Traumatic Secret, and the Future (of) Race Better Horrors: From Terror to Communion in Whitley Strieber's Communion (2015) Meum 15 The New Comparativism: What It Is and How to Do It Transmigration and Cultural Transmission: Comparing Anew with Ian Stevenson (2017) Closing: What the New Sacred Is (Not) Airport Afterword Appendix: The Gnomons The Method of All Methods Acknowledgments Notes Index.
• Publisher Details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (493)
• Subjects: 204.2; Religion -- General; Sex -- Religious aspects; Erotica -- Religious aspects; Occultism -- Religious aspects; Religion -- History; Religion -- Comparative Religion; Religion -- History; Philosophy -- Religious; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226491486
• Related ISBNs: 022649148X; 022612682X; 9780226126821
• Notes: Note: Description based on print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.