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Religious experience reconsidered : a building block approach to the study of religion and other special things /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The problem of "religious experience"
- Experiences deemed religious
- Previous work
- The argument
- Why an attributional approach is better
- Religion : deeming things religious
- The sui generis and ascriptive models of "religious experience"
- Deeming things religious
- Special things and things set apart
- Setting up research
- Conclusion: A four-fold matrix
- Experience : accessing conscious behavior
- Clarifying the concept
- Accessing experience
- Representation and experience revisited
- Explanation : attributing causality
- Attribution theory : an overview
- An attributional theory of religion
- Levels of analysis and attribution
- Comparison : constructing an object of study
- Comparing experiences
- Specifying a point of comparison
- Comparing simple and composite formations
- Imagination and reality
- Conclusion: Religions : a building block approach
- Building blocks
- Religions as composite formations
- Implications.