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

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• Religious Experience Reconsidered i
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Illustrations and Tables ix
• Acknowledgments xi
• Preface xiii
• Religious Experience Reconsidered 1
• Introduction - The Problem of “religious Experience” 3
• Chapter One: Religion - Deeming Things Religious 16
• Chapter Two: Experience - Accessing Conscious Behavior 56
• Chapter 3: Explanation - Attributing Causality 88
• Chapter Four: Comparison - Constructing an Object of Study 120
• Conclusion: Religions - A Building-Block Approach 161
• Appendixes 167
• Appendix A: General Attribution Theory of Religion - (Spilka, Shaver, and Kirkpatrick 1985) 169
• Appendix B: Personal Accounts of Stephen Bradley and William Barnard - (James 1902/1985, 157–60; Barnard 1997, 126–29) 172

• Religious Experience Reconsidered i
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Illustrations and Tables ix
• Acknowledgments xi
• Preface xiii
• Religious Experience Reconsidered 1
• Introduction - The Problem of “religious Experience” 3
• Chapter One: Religion - Deeming Things Religious 16
• Chapter Two: Experience - Accessing Conscious Behavior 56
• Chapter 3: Explanation - Attributing Causality 88
• Chapter Four: Comparison - Constructing an Object of Study 120
• Conclusion: Religions - A Building-Block Approach 161
• Appendixes 167
• Appendix A: General Attribution Theory of Religion - (Spilka, Shaver, and Kirkpatrick 1985) 169
• Appendix B: Personal Accounts of Stephen Bradley and William Barnard - (James 1902/1985, 157–60; Barnard 1997, 126–29) 172
• Appendix C - Preliminary Thoughts on the Elaboration of Composite Formations 176
• Glossary 181
• Works Cited 183
• Name Index 203