What Counts as a ‘Religious Experience?’: Phenomenology, Spirituality, and the Question of Religion
Open Theology October 1, 2018 DeRoo Neal
This paper: a) offers a phenomenology of the religious that challenges the assumption that “religious experience” is primarily to be understood as a type of experience, called ‘religious’ experience, which is distinct from other (i.e., ‘non-religious’) experiences; and b) traces out some implications of this for phenomenological and other scholarly approaches to religion. To achieve these aims,...