Religious Experience Reconsidered
| Author | Ann Taves |
|---|---|
| Subject | religious experience |
Publication date | 2009 |
Religious Experience Reconsidered (2009) is a book by Ann Taves on the study of religious experience. She proposes a new approach, which takes into account the attribution of religious meaning to specific events, using the term "specialness."[1] "The focus of the book is on experiences deemed religious (and, by extension, other things considered special) rather than "religious experience.""[1]
Reception
[edit]Kim Knott calls Taves approach an encompassing framework, which can take into account a multitude of things. She doubts, though, if the term "specialness" can replace the term "sacredness."[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]Sources
[edit]- Knott, Kim (2010), "Specialness and the sacred: Ann Taves, Religious Experience Reconsidered", Religion, 40 (4): 305–307, doi:10.1016/j.religion.2010.09.007
- Taves, Ann (2009), Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things, Princeton University Press
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