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1.

The Evidential Force of Religious Experience » Read Now
by Caroline Franks Davis. 268 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Caroline Franks Davis provides a clear, sensitive, and carefully argued assessment of the value of religious experiences as evidence for religious beliefs. Much more than an 'argument from religious experience', the inquiry systematically addresses underlying philosophical issues such as the role of...
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Caroline Franks Davis provides a clear, sensitive, and carefully argued assessment of the value of religious experiences as evidence for religious beliefs. Much more than an 'argument from religious experience', the inquiry systematically addresses underlying philosophical issues such as the role of interpretation in experience, the function of models and metaphors in religious language, and the way perceptual experiences in general are used as evidence for claims about the world. The author examines several arguments from religious experience and, using contemporary and classic sources from the world religions, gives an account of the different types of experience. To meet sceptical challenges to religious experience, she draws extenisvely on psychological and sociological as well as philosophical and religious literature, probing deeply into the questions whether religious experiences are merely a matter of interpretation, whether there is irreducible conflict among religious experiences, and whether psychological and other reductionist explanations of religious experience are satisfactory. She concludes that religious experiences, like most experiences, are most effective as evidence within a cumulative style of argument which combines evidence from a wide range of sources.
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Types of Religious Experience, Christian and Non-Christian » Read Now
by Joachim Wach. 275 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Psychology, Entire Library

...TYPES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE CHRISTIAN AND NON-CHRISTIAN -ii- TYPES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE CHRISTIAN AND NON-CHRISTIAN...and the witnesses of genuine religious...
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Religious Experience and Scientific Method (1926) » Read Now
by Henry Nelson Wieman. 392 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE AND SCIENTIFIC METHOD By...purpose of this book is to show that religious experience is experience of an object, however...WHY RELIGION NEEDS SCIENCE...
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The Psychology of Religious Experience (1910) » Read Now
by Edward Scribner Ames. 430 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Psychology, Entire Library

...THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE BY EDWARD SCRIBNER AMES, PH.D. ASSISTANT...PSYCHICAL LIFE 279 XVI. IDEAS AND RELIGIOUS...
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The Psychology of Religion: An Introduction to Religious Experience and Behavior » Read Now
by Walter Houston Clark. 485 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Psychology, Entire Library

...RELIGION An Introduction to Religious Experience and Behavior WALTER...volume, The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James, and...Son; The Varieties of...
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The Interpretation of Religious Experience, Vol. 1 (1912) » Read Now
by John Watson. 378 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...THE INTERPRETATION OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE PUBLISHED BY JAMES MACLEHOSE...THE INTERPRETATION OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE THE GIFFORD LECTURES...attempt to interpret our...
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The Interpretation of Religious Experience, Vol. 2 (1912) » Read Now
by John Watson. 346 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library
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Religious Experience, Justification and History » Read Now
by Matthew C. Bagger. 238 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

Recently, many philosophers of religion have sought to defend the rationality of religious belief by shifting the burden of proof onto the critic of religious belief. Some have appealed to extraordinary religious experience in making their case. Religious Experience, Justification, and History...
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Recently, many philosophers of religion have sought to defend the rationality of religious belief by shifting the burden of proof onto the critic of religious belief. Some have appealed to extraordinary religious experience in making their case. Religious Experience, Justification, and History restores neglected explanatory and historical considerations to the debate. Through a study of William James, it contests the accounts of religious experience offered in recent works. Through reflection on the history of philosophy, it also unravels the philosophical use of the term justification. Matthew Bagger argues that the commitment to supernatural explanations implicit in the religious experiences employed to justify religious belief contradicts the modern ideal of human flourishing.
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The Religious Experience of the Roman People, from the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus: The Gifford Lectures for 1909-10 » Read Now
by W. Warde Fowler. 504 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...THE RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE OF THE ROMAN PEOPLE MACMILLAN...OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO THE RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE OF THE ROMAN PEOPLE FROM...question of the first epoch of Roman...
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The Life of Torah: Readings in the Jewish Religious Experience » Read Now
by Jacob Neusner. 237 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Readings in the Jewish Religious Experience Jacob Neusner...Readings in the Jewish Religious Experience Jacob Neusner...reveal the goals, experiences, activities...
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Twice-Born Men: A Clinic in Regeneration; a Footnote in Narrative to Professor William James's "The Varieties of Religious Experience" (1909) » Read Now
by Harold Begbie. 282 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...JAMESS "THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE" BY HAROLD BEGBIE...town. In The Varieties of Religious Experience , Professor William James...Theology has no proofs;...
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How Religious Experience "Works": Jamesian Pragmatism and Its Warrants, in The Review of Metaphysics » Read Now
by Daniel N. Robinson. 16 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...How religious experience "works": Jamesian pragmatism and...of William Jamess Varieties of Religious Experience, a work intended by James as a...bounds. (1) The Varieties...
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Understanding Mysticism » Read Now
by Richard Woods. 588 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...mysticism in The Varieties of Religious Experience , Bertrand Russell unique...development of consciously religious experience. A more particularly defined...still less to...
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Eternal Values in Religion (Chap. VII "Knowledge and Religious Experience") » Read Now
by James Bissett Pratt. 166 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...VII KNOWLEDGE AND RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE 153 1 THE PSYCHOLOGY...of the importance of the religious experience, but it does little in its...James, Varieties of Religious...
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Subject and Psyche ("Religious Experience" p. 74) » Read Now
by Robert M. Doran. 285 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Psychology, Entire Library

...68 3.3.2 Religious Experience 74 3.3.3...appropriately represent Christian religious experience, I am not ready to claim...avenue to profound and genuine religious...