RT Article
T1 Renewing the senses: conversion experience and the phenomenology of the spiritual life
JF International journal for philosophy of religion
VO 72
IS 3
SP 211
OP 226
A1 Wynn, Mark
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 2012
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1821415574
AB In his discussion of conversion experience, in The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James draws attention to a variety of experience which has not been much investigated in the philosophy of religion literature, but which seems to be of some importance religiously—namely, an experience which consists in a re-vivification of the sensory world as a whole. In this paper, I develop four accounts of the nature of this kind of experience, and I show how the experience can inform our conception of the spiritual life, considered as a world-directed mode of experience and practice.
K1 William James
K1 Conversion
K1 Emotion
K1 Spirituality
K1 Spiritual Life
K1 Religion
K1 Phenomenology
DO 10.1007/s11153-011-9293-6