Understanding religious experience : from conviction to life's meaning / Paul K. Moser, Loyola University Chicago
- Author
- Moser, Paul K., 1957-
- Published
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Physical Description
- xi, 352 pages ; 23 cm
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Religious Experience Characterized -- 1.The Maze of Human Life -- 2.Core Religious Experience and Life's Meaning -- 3.Concepts and Diversity -- 4.Whither Religion? -- 5.Why Be Religious? -- 6.Two Extremes on Religious Experience -- 2.Religious Experience Interpreted -- 1.Experience beyond Interpretation -- 2.Interpretation and Sensemaking -- 3.Nontheistic Religious Interpretation -- 4.Theistic Religious Interpretation -- 5.Prospects and Questions -- 3.Religious Experience Practiced -- 1.Practice in Action -- 2.Practicing Religion -- 3.Peril in Religious Practice -- 4.Lessons for Religious Practice -- 4.Religious Experience Naturalized -- 1.A Natural World -- 2.Agents in Nature and Religion -- 3.The Bearing of Naturalism -- 5.Religious Experience Psychologized -- 1.Freud's Psychological World -- 2.Religion after Freud -- 3.Religious Experience in Psychology -- 6.Religious Experience Moralized -- 1.Religion Moralized Reductively -- 2.Religion Moralized Nonreductively -- 3.Moralizing without Replacement -- 7.Religious Experience Cognized: Foundations -- 1.Cognized Religious Experience -- 2.Interpersonal Inquiry -- 3.Tested in Agape -- 4.Led by God -- 5.Convicted in Agape -- 6.Discerning God -- 7.Convictional Knowledge -- 8.Gift for Imitation -- 8.Religious Experience Cognized: Defeaters -- 1.Skepticism and Defeaters -- 2.Explaining God and Evil -- 3.Divine Hiddenness -- 4.Religious Diversity -- 5.God's Gambit in Redemptive Duress -- 6.Normative Meaning in Religious Experience.
- Summary
- "In this book, Paul K. Moser offers a new approach to religious experience and the kind of evidence it provides. Here, he explains the nature of theistic and nontheistic experience in relation to the meaning of human life and its underlying evidence, with special attention given to the perspectives of Tolstoy, Buddha, Confucius, Krishna, Moses, the apostle Paul, and Muhammad. Among the many topics explored in this timely volume are religious experience characterized in a unifying conception, religious experience naturalized relative to science, religious experience psychologized in merely psychological phenomena, and religious experience cognized relative to potential defeaters from evil, divine hiddenness, and religious diversity. Understanding Religious Experience will benefit those interested in the nature of religion and can be used in relevant courses in religious studies, philosophy, theology, biblical studies, and the history of religion"--
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781108471428 hardcover
1108471420 hardcover
9781108457996 paperback
1108457991 paperback - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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