Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Participatory Turn in Spirituality, Mysticism, and Religious Studies
Jorge N. Ferrer and Jacob H. Sherman
PART I. Participation and Spirit: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives
1. A Genealogy of Participation
Jacob H. Sherman
2. Participation, Complexity, and the Study of Religion
Sean Kelly
3. Spiritual Knowing as Participatory Enaction: An Answer to the Question of Religious Pluralism
Jorge N. Ferrer
PART II. Surveying the Traditions: Participatory Engagements
4. Engaging with the Mind of God: The Participatory Path of Jewish Mysticism
Brian L. Lancaster
5. Esoteric Paradigms and Participatory Spirituality in the Teachings of Mikhaël Aïvanhov
Lee Irwin
6. Wound of Love: Feminine Theosis and Embodied Mysticism in Teresa of Avila
Beverly J. Lanzetta
7. Ibn al-‘Arabê on Participating in the Mystery
William C. Chittick
8. One Spirit, One Body: Jesus’ Participatory Revolution
Bruno Barnhart
9. Participation Comes of Age: Owen Barfield and the Bhagavad Gita
Robert McDermott
10. Pulsating with Life: The Paradoxical Intuitions of Henri Bergson
G. William Barnard
11. Connecting Inner and Outer Transformation: Toward an Extended Model of Buddhist Practice
Donald Rothberg
Contributors
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