The Impact of Set and Setting on Religious Experience in Nature
The effects of set and setting in determining whether or not persons in wilderness solitude had religious experiences were investigated. After persons returned from three days in wilderness solitude, reports were obtained on the following types of religious experience: 1) mystical experience, 2) mea...
| Published in: | Journal for the scientific study of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[1976]
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Journal for the scientific study of religion
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| Further subjects: | B
Teachers
B Solitude B Wilderness B Personality traits B Questionnaires B Setting B Christianity B Mystical Experience B Psychological Stress |
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| Summary: | The effects of set and setting in determining whether or not persons in wilderness solitude had religious experiences were investigated. After persons returned from three days in wilderness solitude, reports were obtained on the following types of religious experience: 1) mystical experience, 2) meaningful experience, and 3) whether persons had been in the state of relating to nature more or less communally. Three set factors were included--1) trait of general attitude toward nature, 2) state of relating to nature during the experience, and 3) felt stress--and one setting factor: location. More mystical experiences occurred under the communal setting of low stress. Meaningful experiences occurred more often when set or setting were more communal. More communal states of relating to nature occurred when setting was more communal. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-5906 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1385633 |