Diversity and Interpretation. Toward a Pluralist Realist Description of Religious Experience
| Autor: | Carlos Miguel Gómez Rincón |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | Religions, Vol 12, Iss 10, p 848 (2021) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2077-1444 32014848 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/rel12100848 |
| Popis: | This paper attempts to offer a pluralist realist account of the diversity of religious experience. In the first part, I show that an influential trend in contemporary philosophy of religious experience and religious pluralism is based on the mediational image of knowledge and a problematic notion of interpretation, which generates irresoluble problems. I then attempt a redescription based on an extension of Heidegger’s theory of understanding as pre-theorical engagement with the world, which allows for the conciliation of the diversity of religious experience with its claimed epistemic force. To develop this argument, finally, I present the experience of diversity proper of the contemporary world as a type of spiritual experience in which the traits of a pre-theoretical religious understanding can be found. As a result, the paper suggests a move from epistemology to spirituality for a better understanding of religious experience. |
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