The Social-Psychology of Religious Experience: A Naturalistic Approach
Religious experiences present a seeming paradox: they are felt to be direct, unmediated experiences of the Absolute, yet substantive religious experiences differ from one another in details and imagery in a way that clearly relates to their sociocultural, biographical and situational contexts. A nat...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1981
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1981, Volume: 42, Issue: 1, Pages: 57-67 |
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| Summary: | Religious experiences present a seeming paradox: they are felt to be direct, unmediated experiences of the Absolute, yet substantive religious experiences differ from one another in details and imagery in a way that clearly relates to their sociocultural, biographical and situational contexts. A naturalistic “sociological” social psychological approach is described in which this problem is resolved by differentiating conceptual interpretation from perceptual analogizing and then examining the emergence of expectation, perceptual and intellectual metaphors, and the definition of the situation as a subject moves through his/her biographical experience toward the episode of triggering and having the actual ecstatic peak experience. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3709702 |