Reprint

Spanish Mysticism

Edited by
October 2021
180 pages
  • ISBN978-3-0365-2127-5 (Hardback)
  • ISBN978-3-0365-2128-2 (PDF)

This is a Reprint of the Special Issue Spanish Mysticism that was published in

Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities
Summary

In total, nine articles were published electronically in this special volume of Religions. The authors were scholars from the United States (Dombrowski, Serrán-Pagán, Carrión), Spain (López-Anguita, Alonso, Beneito), Puerto Rico (López-Baralt), Israel (Bar-Asher), and Germany (Dal Bo). I am very proud of the quality of their research and their major contributions to this volume. I believe this field of Spanish mysticism will open up even more avenues and opportunities after people read these articles covering Jewish, Christian, and Islamic mysticism in the context of the Iberian Peninsula. The primary scope of the articles collected here in this special volume serves the purpose of contextualizing Spanish mystical writings in their historical times and to examine how their legacy in the Iberian soil continues to evolve over time. The purpose of this volume is to bring together the different fields of knowledge from religious studies, theology, philosophy, history, comparative literature, philology, psychology, sociology, and the arts to address the main question: Do Spanish mystics borrow symbols and narratives from the mystical traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam? This special topic on Spanish mysticism has attracted scholars from different disciplines to study the great Spanish mystics. The overall focus of this issue is to trace the mutual influences found in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim mystics and to examine their spiritual legacies in greater depth. The aim of this volume is to expand on the existing, currently available literature and to bring together the disjoint pieces of the puzzle so we can better and more holistically understand the rich legacy of the Spanish mystics and the extent to which their mystical thoughts are intertwined in the long history of Spanish mystical literature. To those of you interested in Jewish mysticism in the context of past interactions with either Muslims or Christians, I cordially invite you to read.

Format
  • Hardback
License and Copyright
© 2022 by the authors; CC BY-NC-ND license
Keywords
mysticism; St. John of the Cross; Spain; monopolar theism; dipolar theism; process theism; Charles Hartshorne; prophetic mysticism; mystical theology; St. John of the Cross; Christianity; Carmelite tradition; Elijah; contemplative life and active life; Teresian; Spanish mystical literature; Teresa de Jesús; Ibn ‘Arabi; Christian/‘Spanish’ and Sufi mysticism; comparative theology; gardens; life; knowledge; path; proximity to God; the book of Zohar; Moses de León; Castilian kabbalah; Paradise; the Garden of Eden; eschatology; Ibn al-‘Arabī; al-Futūḥāt al-Makiyyah; hekhalot; comparative mysticism; Sufism; al-Andalus; Ibn Arabi; metaphysics; cosmology; islamic mysticism; Ibn Masarra; Ibn Barrajān; Sophia; Duende; union; Eros; path; feminine power; heart; Presence; secret; theophany; Hieros Gamos; Ibn ʿArabī; theophany; Qurrat al-ʿAyn; Tarjumān al-ashwāq; Interpreter of Desires; science of letters; abjad; Sufism; Arabic geomancy; Giqatilla; Hebrew punctuation; Jewish poetry; Spanish Kabbalah; books of chivalry; books of spiritual chivalry; dark night of the soul; Caballero de la Triste Figura (Knight of the Sad Countenance); St. John of the Cross; n/a

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