Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building-Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things

by Ann Taves

Book Overview

How the sciences of the mind can advance the study of religion

The essence of religion was once widely thought to be a unique form of experience that could not be explained in neurological, psychological, or sociological terms. In recent decades scholars have questioned the privileging of the idea of religious experience in the study of religion, an approach that effectively isolated the study of religion from the social and natural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069114088X
• ISBN13: 9780691140889
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"