Citation and Recitation in Mystical Scholarship and Om’s Drone Metal

In this article I compare the uses of texts designated ‘mystical’ in two traditions: the academic study of religions and the heavy metal music genre of drone metal. Rather than attempting to define mysticism, I review the ways in which quotations of texts have been employed in academic studies on my...

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Main Author: Coggins, Owen (Author)
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