Ineffability: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion

1. Introduction: Ineffability in Comparative Philosophical Perspective
Timothy D. Knepper

2. From Communicable Matter to Incommunicable “Stuff”: Extreme Combinatorics and the Return of Ineffability
Barbara Maria Stafford

3. Pseudo-Dionysius and Paul’s Sermon to theUnknown God
Timothy D. Knepper

4. After Silence, That Which Comes Nearest
Jonathan D. Bellman

5. “Names Are the Guest of Reality”: Apophasis, Mysticism, and Soteriology in Daoist Perspective
Louis Komjathy 康思奇

6. Translating the Ineffable: How Hunters Consult the Dead in Northwestern Côte d’Ivoire
Joseph Hellweg

7. Sikh Mysticism and Sensuous Reproductions
Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh

8. When Expression Is Expressed, Non-expression Is Not-Expressed: A Zen Buddhist Approach to Talking About the Ineffable
Gereon Kopf

9. “That From Which All Words Return”: The Distinctive Methods of Language Utilization in Advaita Vedānta
Anantanand Rambachan

10. Using a Net to Catch the Air: Poetry, Ineffability, and Small Stones in the Shoe: A Lecturish
Christopher Janke

11. The Sayings and Missayings of Samuel Beckett: Literature, Writing, and Method
Craig N. Owens

12. Jewish Mysticism Wrestles with Language
Steven T. Katz

13. Meanings, Words, and Names: Rābi‘a’s Mystical Dance of theLetters
Tamara Albertini

14. Dharma and Dao: Key Terms in theComparative Philosophy of Religion
Leah E. Kalmanson

15. Ineffability in Comparative Philosophical Perspective
Timothy D. Knepper

Nyckelord: Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Religious Studies, general