"In Mystical Society Philip Wexler, a well-known critical theorist with a background in social psychology and a special interest in spirituality, examines the revitalization of spirituality manifesting"

* 1. Mystical Society: Prologue * Religion, Sociology, Education * Interaction: Structure, Discourse, and Being * Mysticism: Analysis and Utopia * 2. Society: Informationalism, Mysticism, Revitalization * Informational Society * Religion and Mysticism * Revitalization * Examples * 3. Self: Reselfing * Immortal Self * Eliade and Hasidism * Reselfing * Classical Sociology: Religion, Power and Self * Postmodern Self in Society: Melucci and Foucault * A Typology of Reselfing * Self and Structure * 4. Criticism: From Culture to Being * Lasch: Social Criticism and the Sacred * Gnosticism and the New Age * Social Ethic of Being * Frankfurt School * Embodied Criticism * Phantasms and Energy * 5. Social Theory: From Society to Cosmos * The Social * Social Energy * Beyond Dualism * Reintegration * Education As Embodied Mediation * From the Social to the Cosmic * 6. Education: From Postmodernism to Ethnography of Being * Educational Research * Context of Educational Research * Mystical Education * School Ethnography of Being * Prophetic Education * 7. Social Interaction: From Alienation to Mysticism * Destruction * Creation * American Religion: Drugs, Nature, Immanence * William James: Over the Threshold to Mystical Revitalization * Hindu Tantrism: New Dynamics of Embodied Mystical Mediation * Hasidism: Individual Redemption and Collective Messianism * Secular Mysticism * 8. Epilogue: Mystical Sociology and Beyond * Mystical Sociology * Self * Social Interaction * Society * Pedagogy of Revitalization * "Forgotten Things,"