Concepts and religious experiences: Wayne Proudfoot on the cultural construction of experiences
Religious Studies July 18, 2011 Stephen S. Bush 15 citations
Abstract The constructivist position, that mystical experiences are determined by the experiencer's cultural context, is now more prevalent among scholars of religion than the perennialist position, which maintains that mystical experiences have a common core that is cross-culturally universal. In large part, this is due to the efforts of Wayne Proudfoot in his widely accepted book,Religious...