Lost Ecstasy Its Decline and Transformation in Religion /

• Main Author: McDaniel, June (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Mysticism
• Subjects: Religions.; Spirituality.; History.; Psychology and religion.; Comparative Religion.; History of Science.; Religion and Psychology.

This book is a study of religious ecstasy, and the ways that it has been suppressed in both the academic study of religion, and in much of the modern practice of religion. It examines the meanings of the term, how ecstatic experience is understood in a range of religions, and why the importance of r...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction: What Happened to Ecstasy? Mysticism, Ecstasy and the Constructivist Loop
• Chapter 2: Some Examples of Religious Ecstasy
• Chapter 3: Attacks on Ecstasy, Pathologizing in Academia
• Chapter 4: Attacks on Ecstasy, Theology: We Don't Want It Either
• Chapter 5: Destructive Ecstasies: Wargasm and the Joy of Violence
• Chapter 6: The Spiritualized Ecstasies: Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll
• Chapter 7: Return of the Repressed: Millenial, Charismatic and Renewal Movements
• Chapter 8: The Case of Hinduism: Ecstasy and Denial
• Chapter 9: Ecstasy and Empathy: Some Venerable Elders and New Directions
• Chapter 10: Conclusions: Can We Go Beyond Criminalizing, Pathologizing, and Trivializing? Or The Problems of Shooting Yourself in the Foot.