Religious Experience

Type

Book

Authors

Wayne Proudfoot

ISBN 10

0520061284

ISBN 13

9780520061286

Tags

Church History, History, Native American, Christianity, Reference, Tribal & Ethnic, Comparative Religion, Theology, Native American Studies, Social Sciences

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. - from Amzon

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