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Cosmic Gratitude [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Classically, gratitude is a tri-polar construal, logically ordering a benefactor, a benefice, and a beneficiary in a favour-giving-receiving situation. Grammatically, the poles are distinguished and bound together by the prepositions ”to’ and ”for’; so I
Roberts, Robert C.
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Religious Experience and Yoga

open access: yesReligions, 2019
Yoga practice provides access to religious experience, which has been defined by William James as “immediate luminousness, philosophical reasonableness, and moral helpfulness.„ In this paper the processes of Yoga will be summarized as found ...
Christopher Key Chapple
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Religious education in the experience of young people from mixed-faith families [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
On the basis of recent ethnographic study at the University of Warwick of the religious identity formation of young people in ‘mixed-faith’ families, this article focuses on their (and their parents’) experiences and perceptions of religious education ...
Arweck E.   +21 more
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The Feeling of Religious Longing and Passionate Rationality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
What is the feeling of religious longing and how, if at all, can religious longing justify religious beliefs? Starting with an analogy between religious longing and basic physical needs and an analogy between religious longing and musical longing, I ...
Tietjen, Ruth Rebecca
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Neurotheology : Brain-based Religious Experience

open access: yesKanz Philosophia: A Journal for Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism, 2011
Even though most men are occupied with gaining a livelihood and providing for their daily needs and show no concern for spiritual matters there lies within the nature of man an innate urge to seek the ultimate Real.
Jalaluddin Rakhmat
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Religious Experience and its Essentialism in William James and Ghazzali’s Views [PDF]

open access: yesComparative Theology, 2016
Religious experience is an approach to which Western thinkers are considered pioneers among whom Schleiermacher is the most prominent. "The essentialism of religious experience" is one of the several approaches that have been adopted in the case of ...
Ahmad Ebadi   +1 more
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Senseless Pain in the Phenomenology of Religious Experience

open access: yesOpen Theology, 2020
There are three models of pain in the phenomenology of religious experience. The first model suggests that pain is instrumental to attaining the desired religious experience.
Salim Emil
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Religious experience and sacred text

open access: yesActa Theologica, 2022
As Kees Waaijman has shown, biblical spirituality engages Holy Scripture in relation to human experience, always with a view toward personal transformation.
A. Holder
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MYSTERIUM TREMENDUM IN A NEW KEY

open access: yesZygon, 2021
In 1917 Rudolf Otto concluded his search for a non‐rational grounding for religion—not opposed to science but also not reducible to science. Reflecting on personal experience and engagement with world religions, Otto posited: all religions are rooted in
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Benign and Pathological Religious Experience

open access: yesPsicopatologia Fenomenológica Contemporânea, 2022
In this paper, I draw on phenomenological analyses of religious voice-hearing and related experiences to elucidate the role of phenomenology in discerning benign from pathological religious experience.
José Eduardo Porcher
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