Understanding Religious Experience

Connolly, Peter

Equinox Publishing Ltd（2019/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 232 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781781797334
• DDC分類 204.2

Full Description

This work seeks to answer a number of fundamental questions about religious experiences. It thus addresses issues such as what it is that makes such experiences `religious,' whether some religious experiences are more `authentic' than others and whether these experiences provide insights into otherwise inaccessible regions of reality or are products of the brains of those who have them. The author draws upon a number of scholarly perspectives in the course of this project, primarily phenomenological, philosophical and psychological ones, though research from other academic disciplines has also been incorporated.

Contents

Introduction

Part 1: A Critical Phenomenology of Religious Experience
The Variety of Religious Experiences
Numinous Experiences
Mystical Experiences
Everyday Religious Experiences

Part 2: A Reductionist Explanation of Religious Experience
Some Cartographic Accounts of Religious Experience
Ken Wilber's Integral Spirituality
Roland Fischer's Cartography of Ecstatic and Meditative States
My Model of ASCs and Spirituality
1. Religious Experiences and Trance States
2. Myths, Religious Rituals and Trance States

Part 3: Loose Ends
Neurological Research
`Authentic' Religious Experience