High on God
Religious Experience and Counter-Experience in Light of the Study of Religion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3525903 |
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| Authors | Matthew Kruger (0000-0001-7325-5870, Boston College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 388 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-28 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel11080388 |
| OpenAlex | W3046171846 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
Taking as its foundation a religious experience of my own, this paper explores the impact of the study of religion on the interpretation and significance of experience. My experience will be analyzed in relation to the work of William James, followed by a movement into neuroscientific research on null experiences, before turning to philosophic and theological treatments of experience in Nishida Kitaro and Meister Eckhart especially. These accounts of religious experience are then explored in terms of the potential connection they suggest with drug use in and out of religious settings. Finally, I will turn to a fundamental questioning of experience as seen in the work of Martin Heidegger and Jean-Luc Marion, all of which sets up a tentative conclusion regarding our approach to religious experience, whether as an object of study or our own
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Faith · Political science · Religious experience · Sociology · Law · Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Religious studies · Social Psychology · Study and Philosophy of Religion
The varieties of religious experience
Zen and the Brain
Fruits of Health; Roots of Despair
Meditation, Health and Scientific Investigations
Varieties of Black Queer Religious Experiences
Early Daoist Scriptures
William James, Pluralism, and the Science of Religious Experience
Nishida's medieval bent
The Insistent and Unbearable Excess
On Husserl's Theory of Consciousness in the Fifth Logical Investigation
William James and the Varieties of Religious and Drinking Experience
| Highly cited | No |
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