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Mysticism and Religious Experience
2005Abstract In modern usage, “mysticism” refers to mystical experience and to practices, discourse, institutions, and traditions associated therewith. The term “mystical experience” enjoys a great variety of meanings, retaining some of that variety among philosophers.
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Religious Experience and Truth
1975To the outsider, the problems of philosophy and theology are like the heads of the Hydra: for every one dissevered, two others replace it. Actually, at the root of one’s frustrations over trying to attack problems piecemeal and in order is their close interconnection.
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Do religious experiences shape religious beliefs or religious concepts?
Religion, Brain & Behavior, 2018The Interactive Religious Experience Model (IREM), proposed by Van Leeuwen and van Elk, uses agency detection to explain how general religious ideas, like “God answers prayers,” become personal bel...
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For a Sociology of Religious Experience
1993A summary of five different models of analyzing religious experiences, with critique.
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Religious Experience in History
1975It is a commonplace of contemporary thought that human consciousness, precisely because it is, as its etymology suggests, a knowledge with, mirrors the social and historical situation in which it manoeuvers. Quite naturally so, too, since we pick up our categories within a milieu and are taught its art of experiencing with a view to communication ...
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2018
This chapter analyses responses to James VII’s Scottish indulgences of 1687, which granted freedom of worship to the great majority of the population. The king’s initiative was a radical break from earlier royal policies – pursued with vigour until the mid-1680s – which used penal laws to enforce religious uniformity.
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This chapter analyses responses to James VII’s Scottish indulgences of 1687, which granted freedom of worship to the great majority of the population. The king’s initiative was a radical break from earlier royal policies – pursued with vigour until the mid-1680s – which used penal laws to enforce religious uniformity.
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Neurology of Religious Experiences
2009Concerning the Gods, there are those who deny the very existence of the Godhead; others say that it exists, but neither bestirs nor concerns itself nor has forethought for anything. A third party attribute to it existence and forethought, but only for great and heavenly matters, not for anything that is on earth. A fourth party admit things on earth as
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