Religious Experience
Download or Read eBook Religious Experience PDF written by Wayne Proudfoot and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987-09-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Wayne Proudfoot |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1987-09-14 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780520908505 |
ISBN-13 | : 0520908503 |
Rating | : 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Religious Experience by : Wayne Proudfoot
Book excerpt: 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.