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Jeffrey Kirpal’s blurb for Jorge Ferrer’s edited volume, The Participatory Turn: Spirituality, Mysticism, Religious Studies (Albany: SUNY Press, 2008).

What a truly hopeful and beautiful book this is. Skillfully negotiating between the Charybdis of a reductive but precious rationalist contextualism and the Scylla of the profound but not always sufficiently critical religious traditions, these authors propose a new, more dialectical path for the future of Religious Studies — a path of participation that recognizes in a rare fashion the truly creative nature of that fundamentally mysterious process of human consciousness we so mundanely call ‘interpretation.’ Catalyzed by a marvelous opening essay on the history and meaning of this participatory turn, the volume promises to become for a new generation what Katz’s and Forman’s pioneering volumes were for earlier ones.

Is this seriously the kind of shit I want to do with my life.....?