Caroline F. Davis, Caroline Franks Davis

The Evidential Force of Religious Experience

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Produktbeschreibung

This study examines the nature of religious experiences and whether they can be used as evidence for religious beliefs. Davis discusses the important philosophical issues raised by religious experience, such as the role of models and metaphors in descriptions of religious experience, and the way experiences in general are used as evidence for claims about the world. Using contemporary and classic sources from the world religions, she gives an account of different types of religious experience and, drawing extensively on psychological and sociological as well as philosophical literature, deals with skeptical challenges about religious experiences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780198250012
• ISBN-10: 0198250010
• Artikelnr.: 21347631

Autorenporträt

Caroline Franks Davis is a Research Analyst in the University Studies Group at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
I. Some Presuppositions
II. Religious Experience
III. Arguments from Religious Experience
IV. A Cumulative Case
V. Challenges to Religious Experience
VI. Experience and Interpretation
VII. The Conflicting Claims Challenge
VIII. The Reductionist Challenge
IX. Towards a Cumulative Case for Theism
Bibliography
Index