Modern Buddhist and Christian Mysticism

Construal and Transformation

Charles M. Mueller, Peter Richardson

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English

Routledge
10 March 2025

linguistics; Religion: general; Christianity; Christian spirituality & religious experience; Buddhist life & practice

Investigations of mysticism often focus on the past, while largely ignoring current developments.

This book contributes to a reversal of that trend with a rigorous examination of a wide selection of contemporary Buddhist and Christian authors. The focus is on the intriguing intersections and subtle divergences now emerging in areas such as ineffability, nonconceptuality, paradox, inverted agency, unity, and self-dissolution. The analysis combines the theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics with a range of methodological approaches, from discourse and thematic analysis to corpus linguistics.

Wide-ranging, systematic, and informative, the book is invaluable to all of those interested in the phenomenon of mysticism within the modern world.

By: Charles M. Mueller, Peter Richardson
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 710g
ISBN: 9781032759616
ISBN 10: 1032759615
Pages: 284
Publication Date: 10 March 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1 Introduction 2 Interpreting Mystical Experience 3 Methodology and Theoretical Framework 4 Ineffability 5 Nonconceptuality and Paradox 6 Agency 7 Unity 8 Self-Dissolution 9 Discourse 10 Conclusion. References. Appendix

Charles M. Mueller is Professor of English Language and Culture at Fuji Women’s University in Japan. His research has primarily been grounded in the cognitive linguistics framework and has often focused on religious language and discourse. He has also translated numerous Buddhist works from Korean and classical Chinese into English. Peter Richardson is a professor in the Research Faculty of Media and Communication at Hokkaido University in Japan. His research primarily focuses on the application of cognitive linguistics to the study of religious language. He coauthored the book Cognitive Linguistics and Religious Language: An Introduction with Charles M. Mueller and Stephen Pihlaja.