Pinned on Karma Rock: whitewater kayaking as religious experience.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion. American Academy of Religion 2007 A Whitney Sanford
This paper argues that whitewater paddling constitutes religious experience, that non-western terms often best describe this experience and that these two facts are related and have much to tell us about the nature of religious experience. That many paddlers articulate their experiences using Asian and/or indigenous religious terms suggests that this language is a form of opposition to existing...