Breaking Free to the Limit: Playing with Foucault, Otto, and Pentecostal Experience

This article explores different phenomenological approaches to understanding one of the central elements of Pentecostal spirituality: the ecstatic experience of the divine (often referred to as the ‘encounter' of the divine). The article begins with a description, based upon participant observa...

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Main Author: Jennings, Mark (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Carfax Publ. [2014]
In: Journal of contemporary religion
Year: 2014, Volume: 29, Issue: 1, Pages: 33-45
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