Michel de Certeau och mystikerna

Abstract

The main purpose of the article is to illustrate Michel de Certeau’s erudite research on the history of mysticism, specially the history of Jesuit mystics from the 16th century. An act of believing, conceived as a migration, a movement of leaving one’s self, independently from the organised system of beliefs, provoke a social conflict inside the Society of Jesus in the beginning of the 16th century. The mystics’ attitude is distinguished by a different view of God who doesn’t let himself define.