The Evidential Force of Religious Experience

ISBN-13: 9780198250012 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 280 str.

Caroline Franks Davis

Opis

This study examines the nature of religious experiences and whether they can be used as evidence for religious beliefs. Davis discusses the important philosophical issues raised by religious experience, such as the role of models and metaphors in descriptions of religious experience, and the way experiences in general are used as evidence for claims about the world. Using contemporary and classic sources from the world religions, she gives an account of different types of religious experience and, drawing extensively on psychological and sociological as well as philosophical literature, deals with skeptical challenges about religious experiences.

Recenzje

Mit einer Fülle hilfreicher Unterscheidungen klärt das Buch auf breiter materialer Basis einen seit Schleiermacher und James grundlegenden religionsphilosophischen Begriff.

O autorze

Caroline Franks Davis is a Research Analyst in the University Studies Group at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.