Religious experience
How is religious experience to be identified, described, analyzed and explained? Is it independent of concepts, beliefs, and practices? How can we account for its authority? Under what conditions might a person identify his or her experience as religious? Wayne Proudfoot shows that concepts, beliefs, and linguistic practices are presupposed by the rules governing this identification of an experience as religious. Some of these characteristics can be understood by attending to the conditions of experience, among which are beliefs about how experience is to be explained
1 online resource (xix, 263 p.)
9780520908505, 9781282355347, 9786612355349, 9780520051430, 0520908503, 1282355341, 6612355344, 0520051432
1298208928
Print version:
Preface; Introduction; I. Expression; The Priority of the Affective Mode: Schleiermacher's On Religion; The Feeling of Absolute Dependence: The Christian Faith; Religious Language as Expression; Expression and Thought; II. Interpretation; The Hermeneutic Tradition; The Pragmatic Tradition; Understanding and Explanation; III. Emotion; Hume and the Traditional Theory; Aristotle on Emotion; A Philosophical Critique of the Traditional View; A Psychological Critique of the Traditional View; A Classic Conversion Experience; Attribution of Causes; IV. Mysticism The Search for a Mystical CoreIneffability; Noetic Quality; Anomaly and Authority; V. Explication; The ""Sense"" of James's Varieties; Sensible Authority; Religious Experience; VI. Explanation; The Problem; Descriptive and Explanatory Reduction; Protective Strategies; Force; Explaining Religious Experience; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y
Includes index
English
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