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- Title
Mysticism and Rebel Mystics in the Book Religions.
- Authors
León, Trinidad
- Abstract
Mysticism denotes phenomena related with Divine experience. In religion it is perceived as a state in which a person seems to have passed beyond the normal parameters of human life and neither behaves nor expresses him/herself in the manner generally considered correct and acceptable in cultural or religious terms. I will approach the central theme of this paper from an ecumenical and multi-faith point of view. It entails demonstrating through the lives of certain figures, by no means conventional ones, that female mysticism in the three big monotheistic religions contains a good degree of rebelliousness and transgresses, more or less openly, traditional doctrine. But it also goes beyond the platitudes of mystic experience itself.
- Subjects
MYSTICISM; RELIGION; RELIGIOUS life; FEMINISM; RESEARCH
- Publication
Feminist Theology: The Journal of the Britain & Ireland School of Feminist Theology, 2011, Vol 19, Issue 3, p230
- ISSN
0966-7350
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0966735011401726