Introducing ‘Disruption’ to Acute Religious Experiences: An Interdisciplinary approach to a multidisciplinary problem

Psychiatry and Religious Studies have common interests in extreme and extraordinary states when articulated in the languages of religions. For Religious Studies the problems with the category of religious experience are philosophical and profound; whilst the resurgence of interest in religion by psy...

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Main Author: Saville-Smith, Richard (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: British Association for the Study of Religions [2017]
In: Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions
Year: 2016, Volume: 18, Pages: 25-45
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Science of Religion / Psychiatry / Religious experience / Disturbance
RelBib Classification:AE Psychology of religion
ZD Psychology
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