Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building-Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things
Two books have significantly shaped the social-scientific study of religious experience: William James's 1903 The Varieties of Religious Experience and Wayne Proudfoot's 1985 Religious Experience. We now have a third. Taves follows James and Proudfoot in using an “overbelief” model, which...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2011
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2011, Volume: 72, Issue: 1, Pages: 113-115 |
| Review of: | Religious experience reconsidered (Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2011) (Spickard, James V.)
Religious experience reconsidered (Princeton, NJ [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press, 2009) (Spickard, James V.) |
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| Summary: | Two books have significantly shaped the social-scientific study of religious experience: William James's 1903 The Varieties of Religious Experience and Wayne Proudfoot's 1985 Religious Experience. We now have a third. Taves follows James and Proudfoot in using an “overbelief” model, which separates the experiences themselves from the ideas that people use to interpret them. Taves differs from James in her insistence that experiences are not religious sui generis, but become religious as people deem them so. She differs from Proudfoot in insisting that the process by which religious meaning is attributed to experiences occurs after the fact, not as part of the experiences themselves. These are matters of degree, not kind. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srr009 |