Evidential Force of Religious Experience

Zusatztext Mit einer Fülle hilfreicher Unterscheidungen klärt das Buch auf breiter materialer Basis einen seit Schleiermacher und James grundlegenden religionsphilosophischen Begriff. Informationen zum Autor Caroline Franks Davis is a Research Analyst in the University Studies Group at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Klappentext This study examines the nature of religious experiences and whether they can be used as evidence for religious beliefs. Davis discusses the important philosophical issues raised by religious experience! such as the role of models and metaphors in descriptions of religious experience! and the way experiences in general are used as evidence for claims about the world. Using contemporary and classic sources from the world religions! she gives an account of different types of religious experience and! drawing extensively on psychological and sociological as well as philosophical literature! deals with skeptical challenges about religious experiences. Zusammenfassung Assesses the value of religious experiences as evidence for religious beliefs. The work addresses philosophical issues such as the role of interpretation in experience; the function of models/metaphors in religious language; and perceptual experiences as evidence for claims about the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction I. Some Presuppositions II. Religious Experience III. Arguments from Religious Experience IV. A Cumulative Case V. Challenges to Religious Experience VI. Experience and Interpretation VII. The Conflicting Claims Challenge VIII. The Reductionist Challenge IX. Towards a Cumulative Case for Theism Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Caroline F. Davis, Caroline Franks Davis, Caroline Franks (Research Analyst in the Un Davis, Davis Caroline Franks, Caroline Franks Davis
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.07.1999
• EAN: 9780198250012
• ISBN: 978-0-19-825001-2
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; RELIGION / Spirituality, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, RELIGION / Philosophy, Spirituality & religious experience, Philosophy of religion, Spirituality and religious experience