Religious ExperienceA Reader
Edited by: Russell T. McCutcheon, Leslie Smith
Series: Critical Categories in the Study of Religion Hardback Price £70.00/$110.00 Paperback Price £16.99/$27.95 |    |
Description
With the assistance of Kim Davis and Christine Scott
Religious Experience: A Reader offers a succinct collection of essays, along with an authoritative general introduction and detailed introductions to each essay, and will be of use in senior undergraduate and graduate classes.
After providing background readings on the history and uses of the category “experience,” this volume pairs classic with contemporary examples of scholarship that presumes religion to be based on experiences that are socio-politically autonomous and therefore universal. Taking this viewpoint as its data, the anthology then moves readers to examine “experience” as part of a social rhetoric that can be studied in terms of its practical effects and its ability to authorize social identities. The collection therefore moves readers from the seemingly common-sense and widely held notion that “religious experience” corresponds to some universal sentiment (often thought to comprise a key element to human nature) to entertaining that the discourse on religious experience is itself a public technique used in acts of social formation.
With the assistance of Kim Davis and Christine Scott
Religious Experience: A Reader offers a succinct collection of essays, along with an authoritative general introduction and detailed introductions to each essay, and will be of use in senior undergraduate and graduate classes.
After providing background readings on the history and uses of the category “experience,” this volume pairs classic with contemporary examples of scholarship that presumes religion to be based on experiences that are socio-politically autonomous and therefore universal. Taking this viewpoint as its data, the anthology then moves readers to examine “experience” as part of a social rhetoric that can be studied in terms of its practical effects and its ability to authorize social identities. The collection therefore moves readers from the seemingly common-sense and widely held notion that “religious experience” corresponds to some universal sentiment (often thought to comprise a key element to human nature) to entertaining that the discourse on religious experience is itself a public technique used in acts of social formation.
Contents
General Introduction
Part 1. The History of Experience
Raymond Williams, “Experience,” Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, 1976.
Ann Taves, excerpt from Fits Traces, & Visions: Experiencing Religion and Explaining Experience from Wesley to James, 1999.
Part 2. The Autonomy of Experience
William James, excerpt from The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, 1901.
Charles Taylor, “James: Varieties,” Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited, 2002.
Part 3. The Universality of Experience
Joachim Wach, “Universals in Religion,” Types of Religious Experience, 1951.
Diana Eck, “Bozeman to Banaras: Questions from the Passage to India,” Encountering God: A Spiritual Journal from Bozeman to Banaras, 1993.
Part 4. The Rhetoric of Experience
Joan Wallach Scott, “The Evidence of Experience”
Robert Sharf, excerpt from “Experience,” in Critical Terms in Religious Studies, 1998.
Part 5. The Discourse of Experience
Wayne Proudfoot, “Explaining Religious Experience,” Religious Experience, 1985.
Tim Murphy, “Eliade, Subjectivity, and Hermeneutics,” Changing Religious Worlds: The Meaning and End of Mircea Eliade, 2001.
Russell McCutcheon, excerpt from “‘Religion’ and the Governable Self,” The Discipline of Religion: Structure, Meaning, and Rhetoric, 2003.
Specifications
| ISBN-10 (Hardback) | 1845530977 |
| ISBN-13 (Hardback) | 9781845530976 |
| Price (Hardback) | £70.00/$110.00 |
| ISBN-10 (Paperback) | 1845530985 |
| ISBN-13 (Paperback) | 9781845530983 |
| Price (Paperback) | £16.99/$27.95 |
| Publication Date | May 2011 |
| Pages | 320 |
| Size | 246 x 174mm |
| Readership | undergraduates |
| Book Status | Not yet published |
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