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Interfaith Dialogue and Mystical Consciousness

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09/11/2022
Author
Portilla, Isaac
Keywords
Inter-religious studies
Interfaith relations
Hindu-Christian dialogue
Hinduism
Yoga
Mysticism
Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi
Sri Aurobindo (Aurobindo Ghose)
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Abstract
This article focuses on the meeting of faith traditions—interfaith dialogue—from the perspective of mystical consciousness. In doing so, it aims to understand the dynamics and potentialities of interfaith mysticism. The contribution of this article to religious studies, in combination with theological inquiry, is threefold: first, it illuminates how the Trinity is directly experienced in interfaith contexts; second, it provides an interfaith framework which accounts for the possibilities, complexity, and challenges of interfaith encounters; third, it shows how Gavin Flood’s three orders of discourse—traditions’ experience and texts, interpretation within traditions, and academic inquiry—can be applied to the study of interfaith mysticism, employing a phenomenological emphasis on hermeneutics. The inquiry is located within the context of representatives of Hindu mystical consciousness (Sri Ramana Maharshi, Sri Aurobindo) and the Christian interfaith tradition (Le Saux, Griffiths, Steindl-Rast), in conversation with Raimon Panikkar’s and Francis X. Clooney’s approaches to inter-religious studies.
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Portilla , I 2022 , ' Interfaith Dialogue and Mystical Consciousness ' , Harvard Theological Review , vol. 115 , no. 4 , pp. 591–620 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0017816022000335
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Harvard Theological Review
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0017816022000335
ISSN
0017-8160
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the President and Fellows of Harvard College. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/25430

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