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Subject heading: mysticism

Some samples:
Mysticism and the mystical experience : East and West / edited by Donald H. Bishop. BL625 .M894 1995

English mystics of the Middle Ages / edited by Barry Windeatt. BV5077 .E54 E54 1994

Julian of Norwich's Showings : from vision to book / Denise Nowakowski Baker. BV4831 .J83 B34 1994

Hildegard of Bingen : an anthology / edited and introduced by Fiona Bowie and Oliver Davies ; with new translations by Robert Carver. BX4700 .H5 H53 1990

Western mysticism : a guide to the basic works / compiled by Mary Ann Bowman. Z7819 .B68

The mastery of consciousness : an introduction and guide to practical mysticism and methods of spiritual development / as given by Meher Baba ; compiled and edited by Allan Y. Cohen. Meher Baba, 1894-1969. BL624 .M43 1977

An illustrated encyclopedia of mysticism and the mystery religions / John Ferguson. 1921- BL625 .F44 1977

The mystics of Islam, by Reynold A. Nicholson. BP189 .N5 1970

Jewish ethics, philosophy and mysticism. Illustrated by Irwin Rosenhouse. Jacobs, Louis, comp. BM43 .J3

Hindu and Muslim mysticism [by] R. C. Zaehner. 1913-1974. BL2015 .M9 Z3 1969

Mystics and Zen masters. Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968. BL625 .M38 1967

Studies in mysticism and religion, presented to Gershom G. Scholem on his seventieth birthday by pupils, colleagues and friends. [Edited by E. E. Urbach, R. J.Zwi Werblowsky and Ch. Wirszubski] BL25 .S68

Western mysticism; the teaching of Augustine, Gregory, and Bernard on contemplation and the comtemplative life. Butler, Edward Cuthbert, 1858-1934. BV5075 .B8 1966

The mystics of the church.Underhill, Evelyn, 1875-1941. BV5075 .U6 1964

The Protestant mystics. With an introd. by W. H. Auden. Fremantle, Anne Jackson, 1909- BV5072 .F7

The essentials of mysticism and other essays, by Evelyn Underhill. Underhill, Evelyn, 1875-1941. BV5082 .U5 1960

Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist. Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro, 1870-1966. BL625 .S85

REFERENCE MATERIALS

Concise Encyclopedia of Islam. Cyril Glasse. BP40 .G42 1989.

Contemporary American Religion. Wade Clark Roof, ed. BL2525 .C65 2000

Encyclopedia of Buddhism / Robert E. Buswell, Jr., editor in chief. BQ128 .E62 2004 

Encyclopedia of Early Christianity. Michael P. McHugh, ed. BR162.2 .E53 1997

Encyclopedia of Judaism. Geoffrey Wigoder, ed. BM50 .E632 1989.

Encyclopedia of Monasticism. 2 volumes. BL631.E63 2000

Encyclopedia of Religion / [editor in chief, Mircea Eliade. BL31 .E46 1987 .

Illustrated Encyclopedia of Mysticism. John Ferguson. BL625.F44 1977

New Catholic Encyclopedia.  BX841 .N44 2003  15 volumes.

New handbook of living religions / edited by John R. Hinnells. BL80.2 .H275 1997

Shambhala Encyclopedia of Yoga. Georg Feuerstein. BL1238.52 .F47 1997.

World Christian encyclopedia : a comparative survey of churches and religions in the modern world / David B. Barrett, George T. Kurian, Todd M. Johnson. BR157 .W67 2001

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