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between the ethnographic data and the self-reports of experimental subjects. The method seems suited for investigating the religious altered state of consciousness without recourse to religious dogma. from ...
certain differences, indicating that we are dealing with two distinct, albeit closely related, ASC's. Keywords: trance, altered states , channeling, consciousness Cuyamungue Institute Sante Fe, New Mexico ...
meditation research describes the process of applying certain techniques to bring about a particular state of consciousness in which there is a profound shift in the relationship to thoughts and emotions ...
[49] pioneered scholarly examination of altered states of consciousness produced by meditation practices and their effect on psychological well-being. Goleman [50] surveyed several types of meditation ...
, to try to recognize the religious , philosophical, political, and sociological commitments that inevitably supplement the scientific ones in current debate. 1 From the Symposium Animal Consciousness ...
adherence to a set of instituted dogmas and doctrines (‘beliefs’), but rather a state of the body ” (Bourdieu 1990, 68). Rather than expunging “belief” from the constitution of the category religion, Whitman’s ...
of university curricula in religious studies and beyond as overlapping facets of a post-1945 project to frame the United States as a benevolent empire (Holbrook 1963; McCutcheon 2004). As dominant political ...
an epistemological function in the political discourse, creating “truth effects” and contending with the status of the state and organized religious institutions as sanctioned authorities to preside over knowledge ...
sage who is sitting there in deep meditation. This sage’s assumed state of realisation is believed to radiate from his body , catalysing spiritual and worldly transformation in those who visit him. So ...
importantly, their variety is an attempt to remedy the sclerosis that has locked the field of religious studies into subdisciplinary postures , each debating [or bracketing] religion’s status as historical ...
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