Afterword
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12039726 |
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| Authors | Jon P Mitchell (0009-0009-6380-910X, University of Sussex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 313-320 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-23 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Temenos - Nordic Journal for the Study of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0497-1817 • E-ISSN: 2342-7256 |
| Publisher | Temenos (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.33356/temenos.60311 |
| OpenAlex | W4237274815 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
This special issue makes a welcome addition to the burgeoning anthropologically inspired work on Christianity. It takes as its central theme the thorny issue of religious experience, and in this case particularly the kind of experience that lies at the centre of Protestant Christianity -direct, unmediated experience of God's presence. Refreshingly, it is framed not merely in terms of changes in intellectual fashion -the turns towards the body, the senses, ontology, aesthetics -but also in terms of substantial and substantive changes within Protestant Christianity itself. These changes may be linked to what we could call a Pentecostal revolution within Protestant Christianity, which has placed the experience of God at its centre -so much so that much Pentecostal effort goes in to inculcating such experience (Brahinsky 2012). Being experientially connected with God becomes an outcome, rather than a pre-condition, of religious activity
Anthropological Studies and Insights · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Philosophy · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment
| Highly cited | No |
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