Touching the Transcendent: Rethinking Religious Experience in the Sociological Study of Religion
Everyday Religion 2007 Courtney J. Bender
AbstractThis chapter reintroduces religious experience as a key theme and trope within contemporary religion. Taking a woman’s gripping out-of-body experience (during which she meets Jesus) as a starting point, it asks why recent sociological studies on the whole pay so little attention to individual religious experience. This is a curious omission given the recent attention to religion’s lived...