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Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Period of Performance

8/1/1972 - 4/30/1973

Funding Totals

$11,250.00 (approved)
$11,250.00 (awarded)

A Study of the Role of Symbols and Symbolic Structures in the Western Mystical Tradition

FAIN: FB-11095-72

Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH 44074-1057)
Grover A. Zinn (Project Director: August 1972 to present)

Study concerned with the role of symbols and symbolic structures in the Christian mystical tradition. By studying the relation of this tradition to its conceptual modes of conceptualization and expression, the question of the way in which novices are initiated into the tradition of aesthetic contemplation is approached.