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  • Publisher:
    Acumen Publishing
    Publication date:
    05 April 2014
    31 December 2012
    ISBN:
    9781844657674
    9781845530976
    9781845530983
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    • Series:
    Critical Categories in the Study of Religion
    Subjects:
    Religion, Religion: General Interest
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Critical Categories in the Study of Religion
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Many regard religious experience as the essence of religion, arguing that religious narratives and rituals are always secondary to the original experience. However, the concept of 'experience' itself has come under increasing fire from a range of critics and theorists. Including essays from those who assume the existence and possible universality of religious experience and those who question its rhetoric, the Reader presents approaches from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives: philosophy, literary and cultural theory, history, psychology, anthropology, feminist theory, as well as writings from within religious studies. With each essay separately introduced with information on its historical and intellectual context, the Reader enables students to explore religious experience as rhetoric created to authorize social identities. Bringing together both classic and contemporary writings, the book will be an invaluable introduction to students of religion, as well as sociology and anthropology.

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