Jeffrey J. Kripal

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Jeffrey J. Kripal

Religious Studies

#981

World Rank

#1808

Historical Rank

#421

USA Rank

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Religious Studies

Jeffrey J. Kripal's Degrees

PhD Comparative Religion Pennsylvania State University
Bachelors Religion St. Olaf College

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According to Wikipedia, Jeffrey John Kripal is an American college professor. He is the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University in Houston, Texas. His work includes the study of comparative erotics and ethics in mystical literature, American countercultural translations of Asian religions, and the history of Western esotericism from gnosticism to New Age religions.

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Jeffrey J. Kripal's Published Works

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Kali's Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna (1995) (94)
Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion (2007) (61)
Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (2010) (61)
Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism and Reflexivity in the Study of Mysticism (2003) (52)
Perspectives on "sacred moments" in psychotherapy. (2011) (37)
The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics (2017) (31)
The Serpent's Gift: Gnostic Reflections on the Study of Religion (2006) (31)
Encountering Kālī : in the margins, at the center, in the West (2003) (27)
Vishnu on Freud's desk : a reader in psychoanalysis and Hinduism (1999) (22)
Reality against Society: William Blake, Antinomianism, and the American Counterculture (2007) (22)
Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal (2011) (22)
Comparative Mystics: Scholars as Gnostic Diplomats (2004) (15)
Hidden Intercourse: Eros and Sexuality in the History of Western Esotericism (2011) (13)
Kālī's Tongue and Ramakrishna: "Biting the Tongue" of the Tantric Tradition (1994) (9)
Quietism and Karma: Non-Action as Non-Ethics in Jain Asceticism (2009) (9)
Kālī the Terrific and Her Tests (2003) (7)
On the edge of the future : Esalen and the evolution of American culture (2005) (7)
Comparing religions : coming to terms (2014) (6)
Gnosisssss ‐ A response to Wouter Hanegraaff (2008) (5)
Remembering Ourselves: On Some Countercultural Echoes of Contemporary Tantric Studies (2007) (5)
Secret Body: Erotic and Esoteric Currents in the History of Religions (2017) (5)
“india's Darkest Heart” (2003) (4)
Introducing Kālī Studies (2003) (4)
Doing the Mother's Caribbean Work (2003) (4)
Kālī's New Frontiers (2003) (3)
Better Horrors: From Terror to Communion in Whitley Strieber’s Communion (1987) (2015) (3)
FROM PARADISE TO PARADOX: THE PSYCHOSPIRITUAL JOURNEY OF JOHN HEIDER (2008) (3)
Kāḷi in a Context of Terror (2003) (3)
Why the Tāntrika is a Hero (2003) (3)
The visitation of the stranger : On some mystical dimensions of the history of religions (1999) (2)
Human Potential before Esalen: An Experiment in Anachronism (2005) (2)
Wrestling With Kālī (2003) (2)
Confronting mortality: faith and meaning across cultures (2014) (2)
The Domestication of a Goddess (2003) (2)
The roar of awakening: The eros of esalen and the western transmission of tantra (2008) (2)
In the Spirit of HermesReflections on the Work of Jorge N. Ferrer (2003) (2)
Margins at the Center (2003) (1)
Secrets in the Seats (2011) (1)
BEING JOHN WOODROFFE: SOME MYTHICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE POSTCOLONIAL STUDY OF HINDU TANTRA (2004) (1)
The Unknown, Remembered Gate Religious Experience and Hermeneutical Reflection (2002) (1)
Mind Matters Esalen’s Sursem Group and the Ethnography of Consciousness (2012) (1)
Histories of the Hidden God: On the Mothman, God, and other monsters: The demonology of John A. Keel (2013) (1)
Book Review:One Lifetime, Many Lives: The Experience of Modern Hindu Hagiography Robin Rinehart (2001) (1)
Mystical Bodies: Reflections on Amy Hollywood's "Sensible Ecstasy" (2003) (1)
The Traumatic Secret (2015) (0)
Book Review:Symbolic Loss: The Ambiguity of Mourning and Memory at Century's End Peter Homans (2002) (0)
Interlude Logoi Mystikoi; or, How to Think like a Gnostic (2006) (0)
Book reviews (2005) (0)
Conclusion: Return to the Garden (2019) (0)
Psychology and Religion at Rice University: A Brief History (2010) (0)
1. The Apocryphon of the Beloved (2019) (0)
On Reading Russian Mystical Literature Upside-Down (2011) (0)
The Dream of Scholarship (2001) (0)
Comparison gets you nowhere (2018) (0)
Gananath Obeyesekere The Awakened Ones: Phenomenology of Visionary Experience (2014) (0)
Book Review:The Enigma of the Oceanic Feeling: Revisioning the Psychoanalytic Theory of Mysticism William B. Parsons (2000) (0)
Reflections of an American Gnostic (2020) (0)
Hidden Intercourse (2022) (0)
Can superhero comics really transmit esoteric knowledge? (2019) (0)
Book Review:The Secret of the Three Cities: An Introduction to Hindu Sakta Tantrism Douglas Renfrew Brooks (1992) (0)
The Gnostic Garden: Kabbalistic Motifs in a Modern Jewish Visionary (2018) (0)
Secret Lives of the Superpowers: Secrecy, the Paranormal, and the Remote Viewing Literature (2022) (0)
2. Restoring the Adam of Light (2019) (0)
Book reviews and notices (1987) (0)
Editor's Introduction (2010) (0)
Book reviews (2009) (0)
Goddesses of Power (2004) (0)
Book reviews and notices (1972) (0)
Listening to the Snake; or, On Having a Spine (2006) (0)
Introduction: The Serpent’s Gift (2019) (0)
Book Review:Jivanmukti in Transformation: Embodied Liberation in Advaita and Neo-Vedanta Andrew O. Fort (2000) (0)
Book Review:Ramakrsna Paramahamsa: A Psychological Profile Narasingha P. Sil (1993) (0)
Humanism and Higher Education (2019) (0)
Heroic heretical heterosexuality (2004) (0)
Introduction: Things we do not talk about (2008) (0)
Book reviews and notices (1992) (0)
Paul Marshall. Mystical Encounters with the Natural World: Experiences and Explanations. New York: Oxford University Press, (2005), ix + 324 pp., $125.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978 0 19 927943 2. (2009) (0)
Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality (2006) (0)
A Complex Delight: The Secularization of the Breast, 1350–1750. By Margaret R. Miles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xiii + 177 pp. $39.95 cloth. (2011) (0)
Book Review:The Divine and the Demoniac: Mahisa's Heroic Struggle with Durga Carmel Berkson (1998) (0)
Frederic W. H. Myers (2014) (0)
The Superhumanities (2022) (0)
3. Comparative Mystics (2019) (0)
Th e Evolving Siddhis: Yoga and Tantra in the Human Potential Movement and Beyond (2011) (0)
Sexuality and the Erotic (2007) (0)
Book Review:Monastic Life in the Christian and Hindu Traditions: A Comparative Study Austin B. Creel, Vasudha Narayanan (1992) (0)
Book reviews and notices (2001) (0)
Comparing Religions in Public: Rural America, Evangelicals, and the Prophetic Function of the Humanities (2022) (0)
Eranos: An Alternative Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century, written by Hans Thomas Hakl, translated by Christopher McIntosh (2016) (0)
South Asia (1999) (0)
Secret Lives of the Superpowers: The Remote Viewing Literature and the Imaginal (2015) (0)

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Kali's Child

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