Religious Experience
“He [the savage] encounters the divine stimulus here, there and anywhere within the contents of an experience in which percepts play a far more important part than concepts” (Marrett 1932, 144. Cf. also Frankfort et al. 1946, 130 ff.).
Religious Experience in Contemporary Taiwan and China helps social scientists and all religion scholars to rediscover the importance of religious experiences for multiple world religions.
How is religious experience to be identified, described, analyzed and explained?
How is religious experience to be identified, described, analyzed and explained?
Many regard religious experience as the essence of religion, arguing that narratives might be created and rituals invented but that these are always secondary to the original experience itself.
This Element looks critically at the history and epistemology of religious experience and how the concept can be fruitfully expanded.
This Element looks at religious experience and the role it has played in philosophy of religion.