William James The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902).

First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life;  March 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......adorable genius. The Varieties of Religious Experience is not his best book--although there...page--but it is our best book about religious experience, our best defense against skeptics...about the significance of personal religious experience for our common life. The Varieties...

religious experience

The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy;      189 words ...religious experience Any experience carrying as...wishful thinking. Reports of religious experience would be the subject of sociological...of a fight back on behalf of religious experience, with some philosophers arguing...

MUSIC IN AMERICAN RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE

The American Organist;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...MUSIC IN AMERICAN RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE, Philip Bohlman, Edith...29.95. Music in American Religious Experience is an unmistakably contemporary...that Music in American Religious Experience works to overcome-but if...

Religious Experience and the End of Metaphysics.(Book Review)

Theological Studies;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE AND THE END OF METAPHYSICS...renegotiating the place of religious experience after all the postmodern adjustments...theology certainly was grounded in religious experience--the influential transcendental...

RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL REPRODUCTION*

St. John's Law Review;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......GA[double dagger] INTRODUCTION: RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE IN MASS CULTURE Less than twenty...culture misrepresented or ignored religious experience.1 The few portrayals of religious...is now replete with portrayals of religious experience. Spiritually themed television...

Religious experience and attitude toward Christianity among Protestant and...

Research in Education;  May 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...The publication of the Handbook of Religious Experience, edited by Ralph IW. Hood (1995...the incidence and correlates of religious experience. In particular two problems frustrate...problem concerns the definition of religious experience and the operationalisation of the...

The American Religious Experience: A Concise History.(Book review)

Journal of Church and State;  January 1, 2007 ;     538 words ...The American Religious Experience: A Concise History. By Lynn...the sweep of the American religious experience --its interreligious, interdenominational...William James's Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), and the life and...

Rationality and Religious Experience: the Continuing Relevance of the...

Philosophy East and West;  July 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Rationality and Religious Experience: The Continuing Relevance...small book, Rationality and Religious Experience: The Continuing Relevance...new title Rationality and Religious Experience ; (2) a commentary by Huston...

Knowing with the Heart: Religious Experience and Belief in God

Anglican Theological Review;  July 1, 2000 ;     585 words ...Knowing with the Heart: Religious Experience and Belief in God. By Roy Clouser. Downers...argues that belief in God is grounded in religious experience, and that some religious experience is self evident. This is a soft-foundationalist...

Attitude toward Christianity and religious experience: Replication among...

Research in Education;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......religious belief (say, belief in God), religious experience, and the attitudinal dimension...second series concerned monitoring religious experience among secondary school pupils using...to examine the role of reported religious experience in supporting and maintaining a...

Varieties of Religious Experience.(Poem)

Southern Cultures;  June 22, 2004 ;     325 words ...Varieties of Religious Experience Sydney, Australia Each morning I improvise a prayer...of people looking for God. Aspiration and Varieties of Religious Experience appeared in The Zones of Paradise by Lynn Powell, published...

RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE IN EARLIEST CHRISTIANITY: A MISSING DIMENSION IN NEW...

Theological Studies;  March 1, 1999 ;     348 words ...RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE IN EARLIEST CHRISTIANITY: A...phenomenological approach to religious experience in early Christianity to fill...that refuses to acknowledge religious experience or even the reality of revelation...

The Politics of the Soul: Eric Voegelin on Religious Experience.(Brief...

Journal of Church and State;  March 22, 2002 ;     134 words ......explore the relevance of Eric Voegelin's understanding of religious experience to contemporary political theory. Voegelin, a political philosopher, maintained that religious experience was absolutely central to human existence, and that...

How religious experience "works": Jamesian pragmatism and its...

The Review of Metaphysics;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......of William James's Varieties of Religious Experience, a work intended by James as a study...scientific' bounds. (1) The Varieties of Religious Experience is not a theological treatise but...to and through The Varieties of Religious Experience. Pragmatism of the Jamesian variety...

Every Time I Feel the Spirit: Religious Experience and Ritual in an...

Social Forces;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Every Time I Feel the Spirit: Religious Experience and Ritual in an African American...Readers interested in the place of religious experience in social life will find Every Time...especially one aspect of African-American religious experience--emotionally expressive forms of...