Table of Figures
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration, Spelling, and Translations
Prologue
Introduction
Part One
1. A New Comparative Religion and the Search for Contemplative Universals
2. Recovering the Mystical in the Reign of Constructivism
3. Biological Essentialism and the New Sciences of Religion
Part Two
Introduction to Part Two: Charting the Common Itinerary of the Contemplative Experience 153
4. The Concentrative Itinerary of the Buddhist Jhanas
5. The Concentrative Itinerary of Yogic Samadhi
6. The Concentrative Itinerary of Catholic Unio Mystica
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index