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Metaphor, Religious Language, and Religious Experience [PDF]

open access: yesSophia, 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.
openaire   +2 more sources

Community resilience to crime: A study of the 2011 Brisbane flood

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, Volume 70, Issue 3-4, Page 379-393, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Understanding and enhancing community resilience is a global priority as societies encounter a rising number of extreme weather events. Given that these events are typically both sudden and unexpected, community resilience is typically examined after the disaster so there can be no before and after comparisons.
Rebecca Wickes   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Religious Moderation in Indonesian Muslims

open access: yesReligions, 2022
Indonesia receives a high religious harmony index every year; however, intolerance and religious radicalism threaten this harmony. Moderate Islam (Islamic religious moderation) has become a national policy as a solution to prevent intolerance and ...
I. Subchi   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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
doaj  

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Alister Hardy: A Naturalist of the Spiritual Realm

open access: yesReligions, 2021
Alister Hardy was one of the pioneers of the scientific study of spiritual experiences (SE); however, his work and insights have not received the attention they deserve. This paper, based on an in-depth analysis of Hardy’s own writings, presents his main
Alexander Moreira-Almeida   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Religious Experience: Experience of Transparency and Resonance

open access: yesOpen Philosophy, 2019
At a time in which religion is breaking away from the normative power of its traditions and new forms of spiritual experience are emerging, religious philosophy must find criteria for what a religious experience is and how to judge its truth.
Theissen Gerd
doaj   +1 more source

Religieuse ervaring: Aspoestertjie van teologiese besinning

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 1990
Religious experience: Cinderella of theological Reflection How is the concept ‘experience’ to be understood, a concept frequently used but which defies clearcut definition? How is religious experience, which is not a terminus technicus, to be understood?
D. P. Veldsman
doaj   +1 more source

Diversity and Interpretation. Toward a Pluralist Realist Description of Religious Experience

open access: yesReligions, 2021
This paper attempts to offer a pluralist realist account of the diversity of religious experience. In the first part, I show that an influential trend in contemporary philosophy of religious experience and religious pluralism is based on the mediational ...
Carlos Miguel Gómez Rincón
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