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Apr 28, 2024
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CHST 653 - American Mystics3 credits
This course examines the mystical writings of Americans from a time span of over two centuries, including Thomas Merton, John Muir, Rachel Carson, William James, Mother Ann Lee, Jemima Wilkinson, Rufus Jones, Howard Thurman, Henry David Thoreau, and others. Some of the questions that motivate our inquiry are: Who counts as a mystic, and why? And who gets to decide? What is the relationship between mystical contemplation and social action? Between mysticism and religious orthodoxies? How do we understand mystics in relation to their particular contexts? What spiritual and intellectual insights for our own time can we glean from reading mystics from another moment in time?
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