The discomfiture of religious experience

Autor:	Felicitas D Goodman
Rok vydání:	1991
Předmět:	History Sociology and Political Science Major and minor Religious experience media_common.quotation_subject Sociology Objectivity (philosophy) media_common Epistemology
Zdroj:	Religion. 21:339-343
ISSN:	1096-1151 0048-721X
DOI:	10.1016/0048-721x(91)90036-p
Popis:	We live in an age where major and minor structured and unstructured cults are mushrooming, most of them aiming at achieving an ecstatic or religious experience. Rather than objective inquiry, reaction to them is often passionate, unreasoning, even vituperous to an extent that seems out of proportion to their relative size of clientele. On the basis of anthropological fieldwork with Apostolic congregations in the U.S.A., Mexico and Yucatan, and as a teacher of a specific technique for achieving religious ecstatic experiences in workshops, I propose to examine some of the cultural and psychological reasons for this abrogation of objectivity.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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