Lost Ecstasy : Its Decline and Transformation in Religion /: Its Decline and Transformation in Religion. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: June McDaniel.
• Authors: McDaniel, June
• Contents: Intro; Lost Ecstasy; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction: What Happened to Ecstasy? Mysticism, Ecstasy, and the Constructivist Loop; Chapter 2 Some Examples of Religious Ecstasy; Judaism; Christianity; Islam; Hinduism; Buddhism; Chapter 3 Attacks on Ecstasy: Pathologizing in Academia; Philosophy of Religion; Sociology of Religion; Anthropology of Religion; History of Religions/Religious Studies; Psychoanalysis and Ecstasy; Biology, Psychiatry, and Medicine; Chapter 4 Attacks on Ecstasy: Theology-We Don't Want It Either; Judaism; Islam; Christian Theology Theology and Pathologies, the Case of MedjugorjeChapter 5 Destructive Ecstasies: Wargasm and the Joy of Violence; Ecstatic Violence; The Ecstasy of Transgression; Destructive Ecstasy and Religion; Chapter 6 The "Spiritualized" Ecstasies: Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll; Connecting Sexual Ecstasy with Spirituality: From Tantra to Romance Novels; Drugs as Entheogens: Bringing the God Within; Santo Daime-Ayahuasca as Sacrament; Ecstasy and Rock and Roll-The Ecstatic Aspects of Modern Music and Dance; Trance Dance, Neo-shamanism, and Universal Peace Chapter 7 The Return of the Repressed: Millennial, Charismatic, and Renewal MovementsMillennial Christianity and the Rapture; Charismatic Christianity and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit; Other Forms of Western Religious Backlash; Chapter 8 The Case of Hinduism: Ecstasy and Denial; Vedic Religion; Upanishadic Religion; The Yoga Tradition; The Tantric Tradition; The Dharma Tradition; Folk Religion; The Bhakti Tradition; Arguments; Chapter 9 Ecstasy and Empathy: Some Venerable Elders and New Directions; Ecstasy Deprivation and the Pragmatic Argument; Ecstasy and Knowledge-The Theoretical Side Modern Psychiatry and Ecstatic StatesChapter 10 Conclusions: Can We Go Beyond Criminalizing, Pathologizing, and Trivializing? Or, the Problems of Shooting Yourself in the Foot; Index
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 204/.22; Religion; Ecstasy; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Inspiration & Personal Growth; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Spirituality / General; RELIGION / Christianity / General; RELIGION / Devotional; RELIGION / Spirituality; Ecstasy; Religion -- Spirituality; Science -- History; Religion -- Psychology of Religion; Spirituality & religious experience; History of science; Psychology; Religions; Spirituality; History; Psychology and religion; Religion -- Comparative Religion; Comparative religion; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319927718
• Related ISBNs: 331992771X; 9783319927701
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 29, 2018).
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