Religious Experience Reconsidered : : A Building-Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things / / Ann Taves.
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 th...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 7 line illus. 7 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction. The Problem of "Religious Experience"
- Chapter One. Religion: Deeming Things Religious
- Chapter Two. Experience: Accessing Conscious Behavior
- Chapter Three. Explanation: Attributing Causality
- Chapter Four. Comparison: Constructing an Object of Study
- Conclusion. Religions: A Building-Block Approach
- Appendixes
- Glossary
- Works Cited
- Name Index
- Subject Index