Religious Experience

Author： Proudfoot > Wayne  

Publisher： University Of California Press‎

Publication year： 1987

E-ISBN: 9780520908505

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780520061286

Subject： B920 宗教理论、宗教思想

Keyword： 宗教

Language： ENG

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Description

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.

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Contents

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 Core

Ineffability

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

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