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Mystic Openings @mysticopenings.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Palgrave Pivot book series welcomes nuanced, post-critique work that reexamines mysticism. Interdisciplinary contributions from the humanities and social sciences are encouraged. Series Editor: Dr. Ali Qadir, Professor of Sociology, PRISM director Publishing Editor: Andrew Prashanth

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Mystic Openings @mysticopenings.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

PRISM team was privileged to host Professor of Comparative Theology Catherine Cornille (Boston College, USA, PRISM advisory committee) . Catherine gave the public talk on “Mysticism and Heresy” and generously shared her insightful comments and expertise with the PRISM team.

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Mystic Openings @mysticopenings.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

How do we theorize public mysticism? Who counts as a mystic? Great methodological and theoretical discussion at PRISM August workshop! We were happy to have Professor Catherine Cornille, Dr. Francois Gauthier, Professor Tine van Osselaer, and and Professor Louise Nelstrop.

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Mystic Openings @mysticopenings.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Thanks to @theoryculturesociety.org for hosting PRISM Postdoctoral Research Fellow Fabien Muller's review of the exciting new book by @aminsamman.bsky.social !

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Mystic Openings @mysticopenings.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Ali Qadir and Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir delivered their talk on "Mystical Consiousness and the Disposition to Creation" at ENSIE 7 (European Network for the Study of Islam and Esotericism" at the University of Malaga.

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Mystic Openings @mysticopenings.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Prism team had two wonderful sessions in the Theology and Religious Studies days in Helsinki.

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Mystic Openings @mysticopenings.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Conference on Religion and Human Flourishing: Building Pathways to Peaceful Societies in South Asia (Hawaii). Panel on Academic Perspectives on Religion and Human Flourishing in South Asia Professor Qadir talks about Religious Freedom, Human Flourishing and Metaphysical Literacy.

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Mystic Openings @mysticopenings.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Are Science and Religion in Conflict? Professor Ali Qadir and Professor John Collins discussed "Understanding the Universe and Our Place in It" last Monday at Veritas Forum (@VeritasForumFinland), Hervanta Campus, Tampere University. Full debate available at: veritasforum.fi/youtube/

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Mystic Openings @mysticopenings.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Professor Ali Qadir delivered his talk on "Religion as Perspective" at the annual conference on Global Perspectives, Tampere International Student Federation.

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Mystic Openings @mysticopenings.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

PRISM partners with the Mystical Theology Network (MTN) and had three wonderful sessions at the MTN conference "Landscapes of Mysticism: Mountain, Ocean, Desert", organized in the Serra Retreat in Malibu (California), March 16-19. Huge thanks to the organizers for enabling this conversation!

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Mystic Openings @mysticopenings.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Dr. Arjun Nair, Professor of Religious Studies (University of Southern California) visited PRISM in February for research collaboration and delivered a talk on "Poetry, Islam, and the Problem of Mystical Experience".

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

The second volume in our series, Texts & Translations of Transcendence & Transformation (4T): Fabien Muller's /Porphyry of Tyre on Theology and Theurgy/

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Mystic Openings @mysticopenings.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Harvard Divinity School organizes a release event for PRISM Postdoctoral Research Fellow Fabien Muller's new book on Porphyry of Tyre. If you're in Boston on February 17th, feel free to register and attend!

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Mystic Openings @mysticopenings.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Ali Qadir delivered a talk on "Mysticism, Spiritual Discovery, and Pluralism in Practice" at UIN Jakarta.

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Mystic Openings @mysticopenings.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

A blogpost by PRISM postdoctoral research fellow Fabien Muller. Thanks for sharing!

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Mystic Openings @mysticopenings.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Analyzing key research on psychedelics and mysticism over the past three decades, this chapter investigates how cultural approaches may complement biomedical research and proposes the concept of mystical consciousness as a key. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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Mystic Openings @mysticopenings.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

"What if religiously plural societies have a potential to support and sustain individual faith in their own peculiar ways?" Prof. Perry Schmidt-Leukel explores the questions raised by religious pluralism in contemporary societies. Check out our first contribution to Mystic Openings on Substack!

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Mystic Openings @mysticopenings.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Can mystics' Love have some role in building the future? What does such Love mean and look like? Ali Qadir and Tatiana Qadir present at "Intersectional Futurisms" in Helsinki. www.intersectionalfuturisms.com

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Mystic Openings @mysticopenings.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

This chapter probes the social grounds and implications of discursive (mis)recognition of modern mystics with a case study of Mirzā Ghulām Aḥmad (d. 1908 CE) in British Indian Punjab. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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Mystic Openings @mysticopenings.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

This is PRISM's official blog. We are hosting monthly posts by leading scholars in the fields of Religious Studies, Theology, and Comparative Mysticism. Stay tuned for our first post (Nov. 15th)!

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