Forms of Religious Commitment and Intense Religious Experience

A sample of 54 equally religiously committed subjects was divided into a primarily personally religiously committed group (N=25), a primarily institutionally religiously committed group (N=14) and an equally personally and institutionally religiously committed group (N=15). Ss in each group were the...

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Auteur principal: Hood, Ralph W. (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Springer 1973
Dans: Review of religious research
Année: 1973, Volume: 15, Numéro: 1, Pages: 29-36
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Résumé:A sample of 54 equally religiously committed subjects was divided into a primarily personally religiously committed group (N=25), a primarily institutionally religiously committed group (N=14) and an equally personally and institutionally religiously committed group (N=15). Ss in each group were then individually interviewed regarding their most significant personal experience. All interviews were taped and subsequently rated for the presence of mystical qualities based upon operational criteria derived from Stace (1960). It was found that the primarily personally religiously committed group was more likely to report experiences codifiable as mystical than was the equally personally and institutionally religiously committed group, which in turn was more likely to report experiences codifiable as mystical than was the primarily institutionally religiously committed group. The relevance of these data for the possible antithetical nature of institutional religious commitment and the intense personal religious experience of mysticism is discussed.
ISSN:2211-4866
Contient:Enthalten in: Review of religious research
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3510294