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The mystical experience is increasingly being subjected to scientific analysis, particularly in the fields of philosophy, psychology and cognitive science. This is mainly achieved through the works of Baroque authors such as Teresa of Ávila and John of the Cross. This recognition is achieved to the extent that these authors present an onto-epistemological project, designed with specific categories, organised into a coherent and individual system, and thus increasingly distanced from the devotional experience. Nevertheless, it is the devotional or pious speech that prevails in the extended (and dominant) Baroque religious worldview, which testifies to the transgressive and repressed religious configurations. Moreover, it could be argued that it is the domain of devotion, rather than that of mysticism, which provides a privileged historical avenue to the 'religious feeling' that is latent in populist and fundamentalist discourses.
Joana Serrado, born in 1979, is an assistant professor at the Chair of Iberian Cultural Studies at the Technical University of Chemnitz. After studying philosophy, medieval studies and religion in Coimbra, Porto and Berlin, she completed her doctorate in the history of ideas and Christianity at the University of Groningen, funded by the Portuguese Research Council. Previous research posts include the Harvard Divinity School (Fulbright Fellow), the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Oslo (Yggdrasyl doctorate fellow), the University of Oxford (Gordon Millburn Junior Research Fellow in Mysticism and religious Experience) and the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz.
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