Religious Experience

Religious Experience
ISBN-10
0520908503
ISBN-13
9780520908505
Series
Religious Experience
Category
Religion
Pages
290
Language
English
Published
1987-09-14
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Author
Wayne Proudfoot

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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