Interpretation and Mystical Experience

Professor R. C. Zaehner's distinction between panenhenic, monistic and theistic mysticism will be examined. It will be argued that there is no necessary reason to suppose that the latter two types involve different sorts of experience: the difference lies rather in the way the experience is int...

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Main Author: Smart, Ninian 1927-2001 (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press [1965]
In: Religious studies
Year: 1965, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 75-87
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