Understanding Religious Experience
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 1. February 2019
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-1-78179-732-7 (ISBN)
Description
explores a number of fundamental questions about religious experiences, such as what it is that makes such experiences ‘religious,’ whether some such experiences are more ‘authentic’ than others and whether these experiences provide insights into otherwise inaccessible regions of reality or are products of the brains of those who have them.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
517 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78179-732-7 (9781781797327)
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Peter Connolly was, for many years, senior lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Chichester, England, where he taught courses on Ethics, Indian Religion and Psychology of Religion. He has also worked as an associate lecturer in both Psychology and Religious Studies with the Open University and has delivered many courses on the history and philosophy of yoga for a number of yoga training institutions. A revised edition of his A Student's Guide to the History and Philosophy of Yoga, also published by Equinox, was released in 2014.
Content
Introduction Part 1: A Critical Phenomenology of Religious Experience The Variety of Religious Experiences Numinous Experiences Mystical Experiences Everyday Religious Experiences Part 2: A Reductionist Explanation of Religious Experience Some Cartographic Accounts of Religious Experience Ken Wilber's Integral Spirituality Roland Fischer's Cartography of Ecstatic and Meditative States My Model of ASCs and Spirituality 1. Religious Experiences and Trance States 2. Myths, Religious Rituals and Trance States Part 3: Loose Ends Neurological Research `Authentic' Religious Experience