Preface; Introduction: acting and enacting: mystical theology and its reception in France, Louise Nelstrop. Part I Forgotten and Remembered: Philosophical Voicings of the Mystical: With mind and heart: Maurice Blondel and the mystic life, Michael A. Conway; An eruption of mystical life in feminist action: mysticism and confidence after Bergson, Pamela Sue Anderson; On the matter of God: conversations in the Khora, Tina Beattie; The overflowing self: the phenomenology of possession in biblical and Indian mysticism, Jessica Frazier; Phenomenology and theology: an essay on borders, Emmanuel Falque. Part II Distinction, Union and Devotion: Action and Enacting the Divine: The pious jackal and the pseudo-woman: doctrines of deification in late medieval France, John Arblaster; A French mystic's perspective on the crisis of mysticism: Jean-Joseph Surin (1600-1665), Rob Faesen; From late medieval to early modern: assessing the mystical theology of Pierre de Berulle (1575-1629), Edward Howells; Mystical eucharistics: Abhishiktanda and Teilhard de Chardin, Richard Kearney. Part III Words and Images in Action: The mystical theology of Saint Francis de Sales in the Traite de l'amour de Dieu, Terence O'Reilly; Mysticism in captivity: Elie Neau, French Protestant galley slave, Ruth Whelan; Jean Sulivan and the mystical moment, Eamon Maher; The rapture of art and the art of rapture: Ernest Pignon-Ernest's installation Extases and the evocation of ecstasy, Amanda Dillon. Index.