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WHAT DO WE EXPERIENCE IF WE HAVE RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE?

WHAT DO WE EXPERIENCE IF WE HAVE RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE? <jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The starting point of the paper is the historical fact that people who have special forms of religious experience such as seeing saints, angels, gods or goddesses can always say whom they saw. They never met anyone totally unknown to them. The question is why. The answer that the paper proposes and invites to discuss is that having experience means to identify what is happening with what is known as pattern of interpretation. The knowledge of those patterns is due either to socialisation or to further studies in favour of, or against, those patterns, yet, it is unlikely that something totally new will ever be discovered through those forms of religious experience.</jats:p> </jats:sec> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Numen Brill

WHAT DO WE EXPERIENCE IF WE HAVE RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE?

Numen , Volume 49 (3): 336 – Jan 1, 2002

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 2002 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0029-5973
eISSN
1568-5276
DOI
10.1163/156852702320263954
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Abstract

<jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The starting point of the paper is the historical fact that people who have special forms of religious experience such as seeing saints, angels, gods or goddesses can always say whom they saw. They never met anyone totally unknown to them. The question is why. The answer that the paper proposes and invites to discuss is that having experience means to identify what is happening with what is known as pattern of interpretation. The knowledge of those patterns is due either to socialisation or to further studies in favour of, or against, those patterns, yet, it is unlikely that something totally new will ever be discovered through those forms of religious experience.</jats:p> </jats:sec>

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NumenBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2002

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