Craig Martin, Russell T. Mccutcheon

Religious Experience (eBook, ePUB)

A Reader

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This Reader presents writings from both those who assume the existence and possible universality of religious experience and those who question the very rhetoric of "experience".

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317545699
• Artikelnr.: 41506330

Autorenporträt

Craig Martin is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at St. Aquinas College, New York. He is the author of many works including A Critical Introduction to the Study of Religion. Russell T. McCutcheon is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. His major recent publications include Manufacturing Religion, Religion and the Domestication of Dissent and Studying Religion. Leslie Dorrough Smith is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Women's and Gender Studies program at Avila University, Kansas City, Missouri.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Russell T. McCutcheon PART ONE: THE BACKGROUND OF EXPERIENCE
1. "Experience" from Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, Raymond
Williams 2. "Rethinking Experience" from Shelter Blues: Sanity and Selfhood
among the Homeless, Robert Desjarlais PART TWO: THE AUTONOMY OF EXPERIENCE
3. "Circumscription of the Topic" from The Varieties of Religious
Experience: A Study in Human Nature, William James 4. "James: Varieties"
from Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited, Charles Taylor
PART THREE: THE UNIVERSALITY OF EXPERIENCE 5. "Universals in Religion" from
Types of Religious Experience: Christian and Non-Christian, Joachim Wach 6.
"Bozeman to Banaras: Questions from the Passage to India" from Encountering
God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras, Diana Eck PART FOUR: THE
EXPLANATION OF EXPERIENCE 7. "Emotion" and "Explaining Religious
Experience" from Religious Experience, Wayne Proudfoot 8. "Conclusion" from
Fits, Trances, & Visions: Experiencing Religion and Explaining Experience
from Wesley to James, Ann Taves PART FIVE: THE UNRAVELING OF EXPERIENCE 9.
"Experience" from Critical Terms for Religious Studies, Robert Sharf 10.
"The Evidence of Experience" from Critical Inquiry, Joan Wallach Scott
CONCLUSION: THE CAPITAL OF "EXPERIENCE" 11. William James in Late
Capitalism: Our Religion of the Status Quo, Craig Martin SOME AFTERWORDS
12. I Have a Hunch, Russell T. McCutcheon Bibliography Index