Mystical Society: An Emerging Social Vision

In: Edge, Critical Studies in Educational Theory

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Prologue: A New Society -- Religion, Sociology, Education -- Interaction: Structure, Discourse, and Being -- Mysticism: Analysis and Utopia -- 2 Society: Informationalism, Mysticism, Revitalization -- Informational Society -- Religion and Mysticism -- Revitalization -- Examples -- 3 Self: Reselfing -- Immortal Self -- Eliade and Hasidism -- Reselfing -- Classical Sociology: Religion, Power, and Self -- Postmodern Self in Society: Melucci and Foucault -- A Typology of Reselfing -- Self and Structure -- 4 Criticism: From Culture to Being -- Lasch: Social Criticism and the Sacred -- Gnosticism and the New Age -- Social Ethic of Being -- Frankfurt School -- Embodied Criticism -- Phantasms and Energy -- 5 Social Theory: From Society to Cosmos -- The Social -- Social Energy -- Beyond Dualism -- Reintegration -- Education As Embodied Mediation -- From the Social to the Cosmic -- 6 Education: From Postmodernism to Ethnography of Being -- Educational Research -- Context of Educational Research -- Mystical Education -- School Ethnography of Being -- Prophetic Education -- 7 Social Interaction: From Alienation to Mysticism -- Destruction -- Creation -- American Religion: Drugs, Nature, Immanence -- William James: Over the Threshold to Mystical Revitalization -- Hindu Tantrism: New/Old Dynamics of Embodied Mystical Mediation -- Hasidism: Individual Redemption and Collective Messianism -- Secular Mysticism -- 8 Epilogue: Mystical Sociology and Beyond -- Mystical Sociology -- Self -- Social Interaction -- Society -- Pedagogy of Revitalization -- Forgotten Things -- References -- Index