Renewing the senses: conversion experience and the phenomenology of the spiritual life
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 whi...
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| 语言: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2012
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International journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2012, 卷: 72, 发布: 3, Pages: 211-226 |
| Further subjects: | B
Phenomenology
B Spirituality B Spiritual Life B William James B 宗教 B Emotion B Conversion |
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| 总结: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8684 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11153-011-9293-6 |