TY - JOUR

T1 - Mystical Experience as Universal Connectedness: Leonardo Boff's 'trans-cultural phenomenology'.

AU - Dawson, Andrew

N1 - RAE_import_type : Journal article RAE_uoa_type : Theology, Divinity and Religious Studies

PY - 2004/5/1

Y1 - 2004/5/1

N2 - This article engages with the post-1992 (Rio Earth Summit) writings of Leonardo Boff, one of the most prolific and widely read Brazilian writers in the religious field today. The article first outlines Boff's understanding of the prevailing global market paradigm, guided by 'liberal capitalist' values and at the point of crisis. Boff's appreciation of the emergent 'new science' paradigm as providing conceptual impetus to fresh understandings of relations between the sacred, the self, and the universe is then delineated. The understanding of mystical experience as universal connectedness, informed by the 'new science' paradigm and emerging from Boff's 'trans-cultural phenomenological' reading of religious discourse and practice, is subsequently explored in depth.

AB - This article engages with the post-1992 (Rio Earth Summit) writings of Leonardo Boff, one of the most prolific and widely read Brazilian writers in the religious field today. The article first outlines Boff's understanding of the prevailing global market paradigm, guided by 'liberal capitalist' values and at the point of crisis. Boff's appreciation of the emergent 'new science' paradigm as providing conceptual impetus to fresh understandings of relations between the sacred, the self, and the universe is then delineated. The understanding of mystical experience as universal connectedness, informed by the 'new science' paradigm and emerging from Boff's 'trans-cultural phenomenological' reading of religious discourse and practice, is subsequently explored in depth.

U2 - 10.1080/1353790042000207683

DO - 10.1080/1353790042000207683

M3 - Journal article

VL - 19

SP - 155

EP - 169

JO - Journal of Contemporary Religion

JF - Journal of Contemporary Religion

SN - 1469-9419

IS - 2

ER -