The word "mysticism" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the belief in spiritual and/or supernatural powers and forces. Example Sentence: Mysticism has been around since the dawn of humanity, captured in artwork, literature, and religious practices.
The Islam of north Africa, where most of France's Muslims come from, belongs to the Maliki school – a tolerant and easygoing tradition that does not force women to wear veils and encourages such non-fundamentalist activities as music, Sufi mysticism, superstition and magic.
They returned to the Caucasus with their clan and family structure intact, as well as their adherence to a very discreet and therefore robust form of Muslim piety, in which the Sufi traditions of mysticism, sainthood and defensive war loom large.But except in their deepest hearts, perhaps, talented young Chechens of Mr Maskhadov's generation felt no hesitation about serving the Soviet cause.
He was expelled from Cuba and Czechoslovakia for advocating homosexuality, and from India, where he sought "eastern mysticism" and was accused of being an American spy, and from various countries in Latin America where he said he was looking for new drugs.
Out of space Keeping in step Vista vision Where spice came from ReprintsHuge concepts and huge scale; a deep mysticism; fearlessness of ridicule; an almost sacred sense of the possibilities that science held for man.
The sheikh (Amr Waked), in a whirl of mysticism, believes that the inner spirituality he feels when fly-fishing can spread peace across his homeland.
They had caught the medieval longing for apostolic simplicity, lay involvement and mysticism that also fired St Francis; but the male clergy, unable to control them, attacked them as heretics and burned some alive.
For a while he embraced the Catholic mysticism of St John of the Cross, which led to stupendous explosions of timpani.
In recent times, moreover, Western interest in Islamic mysticism has become urgent.
Assassins' bullets fired point-blank at him have somehow missed him, according to his publicists, and a bomb once brought down his aircraft, but not its passenger.To a foreign audience, Mr Eyadéma plays down the mysticism.
A religion that once included diverse strands of mysticism, and even of mild paganism especially in countries like Indonesia, whither Islam was borne by traders, not conquerors has begun to harden around a very rigid textualism.
But interest among the young in general later fell back, in some cases because they realised that the church offered hard, ascetical discipline rather than faddish, feel-good mysticism.
