Fits, Trances, and Visions: Experiencing Religion and Explaining Experience from Wesley to James

by Ann Taves

Book Overview

Fits, trances, visions, speaking in tongues, clairvoyance, out-of-body experiences, possession. Believers have long viewed these and similar involuntary experiences as religious--as manifestations of God, the spirits, or the Christ within. Skeptics, on the other hand, have understood them as symptoms of physical disease, mental disorder, group dynamics, or other natural causes. In this sweeping work of religious and psychological history, Ann Taves...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691010242
• ISBN13: 9780691010243
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"