Metaphor, Religious Language, and Religious Experience [PDF]
Sophia, 2007 Is it possible to talk about God without either misrepresentation or failing to assert anything of significance? The article begins by reviewing how, in attempting to answer this question, traditional theories of religious language have failed to sidestep both potential pitfalls adequately.
Harrison, V.S.
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Critical Examination of John Cottingham's View on Religious Experience and its Function in the Formation of Religious Belief [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2023 John Cottingham focuses on two types of religious experience: general religious experience and specific religious experience. According to him, general experiences do not require special and complex education, scientific research or philosophical ...
Mehdi Khayatzadeh
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Rumi's Mysticism in the Field of Religious and Mystical Experiences [PDF]
ادبیات عرفانی, 2022 Religion, as one of the most important fields of knowledge, has different aspects, including the esoteric and inner fields. In modern mystical studies, esoteric or personal experiences about God are interpreted as “religious and mystical experience”.
Marziyeh Rastgar +2 more
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Case Study of Recognition Patterns in Haunted People Syndrome
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Haunted People Syndrome (HP-S) denotes individuals who recurrently report various “supernatural” encounters in everyday settings ostensibly due to heightened somatic-sensory sensitivities to dis-ease states (e.g., marked but sub-clinical levels of ...
James Houran, James Houran, Brian Laythe
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Applying Q-Methodology to Identify Mental Patterns: The Experience of Religious Tourists [PDF]
Muṭāli̒āt-i Mudīriyyat-i Gardishgarī, 2022 Introduction Tourism and religion have always been inextricably linked, with religion as one of the most common travel motives. One of the oldest forms of travel in the world, the religiously motivated travel is currently considered an emerging part of ...
Fatemeh Zargaran Khouzani +2 more
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Studying Mystic Waaqeah and Its Symbolism as a Religious Experience [PDF]
ادبیات عرفانی, 2023 The term “waaqeah” in Islamic mysticism refers to a state achieved through specific practices and conditions (such as seclusion, immersion in remembrance, and similar activities), through which the seeker attains a novel understanding and discovers an ...
Ehsan Pourabrisham
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Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation for religious thinking in a sample of Greek Orthodox children
Ψυχολογία: το Περιοδικό της Ελληνικής Ψυχολογικής Εταιρείας, 2020 IS AVAILABLE IN THE ...
Dimitris Pnevmatikos
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Richard Swinburne's Concept of Religious Experience. An Analysis and Critique [PDF]
, 2014 The so-called ”argument from religious experience’ plays a prominent role in today’s analytical philosophy of religion. It is also of considerable importance to richard Swinburne’s apologetic project.
Gregor Nickel, Dieter Schönecker
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The Justification of Sensory Experience and Religious Experience in Alston's Intellectual System; Controversies and Responses [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2023 Introduction, Alston by distinguishing two explanatory views of sensory experience; that means, the direct and indirect justification point of view is based on the belief that sensory experience directly justifies belongings; That is, in our sensory ...
Masoumeh Mahmoudi, Abdollah Salavati
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Religious experience and the probability of theism: comments on Swinburne [PDF]
, 2017 I discuss Richard Swinburne’s account of religious experience in his probabilistic case for theism. I argue, pace Swinburne, that even if cosmological considerations render theism not too improbable, religious experience does not render it more probable ...
Jäger, Christoph
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