The study of religious experience
Subtitle: approaches and methodologies
By: edited by Bettina E. Schmidt
Publisher: Equinox Publishng Ltd
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Bristol, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9781781792568; 9781781792575; 9781781794180
Subjects: Methode; Wissenschaft; Religiöse Erfahrung; Religionswissenschaft; Experience (Religion); 11.06 psychology of religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-188) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Bettina E. Schmidt; title: How to study religious experience : historical and methodological reflections on the study of the paranormal  -- Fiona Bowie; title: Ethnological and and neurophenomenological approaches to religious experiences  -- Michael Winkelman; title: Fieldwork and embodies knowledge : researching the experiences of spirit mediums in the Brazilian vale do amanhecer  -- Emily Pierini; title: Cultural-linguistic constructivism and the challenge of near-death and out-of body experiences  -- Gregory Shusham; title: Provincializing religious experience : methodological challenges to the study of religious experiences in Brazil  -- Bettina E. Schmidt; title: Immediate revelation or the basest idolatry? Theology and religious experience  -- Robert Pope; title: An argument from religious experience : origins and revelations  -- Tristan Nash; title: Text and experience : reflections on 'Seeing' in the Gosel of John  -- Catrin H. Williams; title: Music as spiritual experience  -- June Boyce-Tillman; title: Is it possible to have a 'Religious experience' in cyberspace? -- Gary Bunt.