Religious Experience Reconsidered A Building-Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things

Name: Religious Experience Reconsidered A Building-Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things
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ISBN: 9780691140889

ISBN-10: 069114088X

ISBN-13: 9780691140889

Edition: 2009

Authors: Ann Taves

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The essence of religion was once widely thought to be a unique form of experience that could not be explained in neurological, psychological, or sociological terms. In recent decades scholars have questioned the privileging of the idea of religious experience in the study of religion, an approach that effectively isolated the study of religion from the social and natural sciences.Religious Experience Reconsideredlays out a framework for research into religious phenomena that reclaims experience as a central concept while bridging the divide between religious studies and the sciences.Ann Taves shifts the focus from "religious experience," conceived as a fixed and stable thing, to an…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/11/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.17" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Ann Taves is professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and past president of the American Academy of Religion. Her books include "Fits, Trances, and Visions: Experiencing Religion and Explaining Experience from Wesley to James" (Princeton).