The study of religious experience : approaches and methodologies / edited by Bettina E. Schmidt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schmidt, Bettina E., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experience (Religion).

Physical Description:

viii, 197 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Bristol, CT : Equinox Publishng Ltd, 2016.

Summary:

[This book] shows how a range of disciplines including anthropology, philosophy, religious studies, theology, biblical studies and history approach the topic of religious experience, how this approach is applied and what contributions they make to the study of religious experience. -- Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction / Bettina E. Schmidt

How to study religious experience : historical and methodological reflections on the study of the paranormal / Fiona Bowie

Ethnological and and neurophenomenological approaches to religious experiences / Michael Winkelman

Fieldwork and embodies knowledge : researching the experiences of spirit mediums in the Brazilian vale do amanhecer / Emily Pierini

- Cultural-linguistic constructivism and the challenge of near-death and out-of body experiences / Gregory Shusham

Provincializing religious experience : methodological challenges to the study of religious experiences in Brazil / Bettina E. Schmidt

Immediate revelation or the basest idolatry? Theology and religious experience / Robert Pope

An argument from religious experience : origins and revelations / Tristan Nash

Text and experience : reflections on 'Seeing' in the Gosel of John / Catrin H. Williams

Music as spiritual experience / June Boyce-Tillman

Is it possible to have a 'Religious experience' in cyberspace? / Gary Bunt.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-188) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Study of religious experience.

ISBN:

9781781792568

1781792569

9781781792575

1781792577

9781781794180

1781794189

OCLC:

945359435

Publisher Number:

90103148884

40026839711