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Religious experience / Wayne Proudfoot.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1987.Description: 1 online resource (xix, 263 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780520908505
  • 0520908503
Uniform titles:
  • University of California Press collection.
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 291.42
LOC classification:
  • BV1471.2
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
I. Expression; II. Interpretation; III. Emotion; IV. Mysticism; V. Explication; VI. Explanation; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index.
Summary: 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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)295061

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-259).

I. Expression; II. Interpretation; III. Emotion; IV. Mysticism; V. Explication; VI. Explanation; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index.

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.

In English.