RT Article
T1 Doświadczenie religijne – problemy terminologiczne  = RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE – TERMINOLOGICAL PROBLEMS
JF Studia religiologica
VO 44
SP 7
OP 33
A1 Szyjewski, Andrzej
LA Polish
YR 2011
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1761237276
AB The huge number of interpretations and approaches to religious experiences makes discourse in the scientific studies of religion on the scope and significance of these phenomena extremely difficult. Especially misleading is the identification of them with mystical experiences, as well as attempts to depreciate these types of experience that are alien to researchers. A possible solution is the introduction of a differentiated scale of religious experiences in which mystical experiences constitute their „climactic”, emotionally and cognitively most intensive form. Acknowledging Otto’s definition of sensus numinis, the content of the experience and its cognitive, motivational and physiological components become a problem. In this situation most promising is on the one hand the classical conception of Joachim Wach, which orders the discourse and proposes recognising research on religious experiences with one of the main disciplines of religious studies, and on the other Abraham Maslow’s concept of „peak experiences”and „plateau experiences”. Therefore, (1) religious experience is graded; (2) it is not exclusively the sense itself (sensus numinis), since it brings cognitive and volitional effects, (3) it need not have a personal character and (4) experiencing it usually leads to various, more or less successful attempts to express it, and this then happens by means of symbols and is organised in the form of myths.
K1 Altered states of consciousness
K1 Joachim Wach
K1 M-scale
K1 Ninian Smart
K1 Rudolf Otto
K1 William Stace
K1 features
K1 Mystical Experience
K1 numinotic experience
K1 Peak Experience
K1 plateau experience
K1 Religious Experience
K1 Scale
K1 Sensus numinis
K1 shamanic experience
K1 Symbol
K1 Symbolization
K1 Theory
K1 trance – definition
K1 Typology
K1 Ultimate Reality
DO 10.4467/20844077SR.11.001.0245