Feminism, Constructivism and Numinous Experience
Religious Studies December 1, 1994 Melissa Raphael
This article brings together constructivist epistemology and feminist study of religion to provide phenomenological evidence that numinous consciousness is not the immediate,sui generisessence of religious experience that Rudolf Otto believed it to be. Whilst there are certain peculiarities in the Ottonian scheme that might make numinous consciousness unusually resistant to conceptual and...