Culturological Projections of Christian Religious and Mystical Experience
Mark Vladimirovich Shugurov, Olga Viktorovna Kostina
Manuscript November 20, 2021 DOI: 10.30853/mns20210478 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Mystical experience |
| Key points | Argues that Christian religious and mystical experience can be productively studied as a cultural tradition through a culturological approach, and that interdisciplinary interaction between culturology and the philosophy of culture helps define mysticism's role in Christian culture. Proposes that culturological projections of this experience form a multifaceted system encompassing both artifacts and a manifestation of the transcendent basis of human culture. |
Abstract
The paper aims to analyze the heuristic potential of the Christian religious and mystical experience comprehension through the subject of culturology. The authors focus on the culturological approach to this experience which is conceptualized as a cultural tradition. Particular attention is paid to the Christian mysticism as spiritual and at the same time cultural heritage. The scientific originality of the research consists in the complex analysis of the place of culturological knowledge and cognition in the interdisciplinary space of the Christian religious and mystical experience comprehension. Particular importance is given to the interdisciplinary interaction between culturology and philosophy of culture in relation to defining the role of mystical experience in Christian culture. As a result, it has been proved that culturological projections of the Christian religious and mystical experience as a subject of culturology form a multifaceted system presented not only by the variety of artifacts, but also by the unique manifestation of transcendent basis of human culture.
Comparable studies
Other theoretical and historical papers on mystical experience, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious and Mystical Experiences as Artifacts of Temporal Lobe Function: A General Hypothesis | 1983 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| The Psychedelic Mystical Experience in the Human Encounter with Death | 1969 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Vectorial Cerebral Hemisphericity as Differential Sources for the Sensed Presence, Mystical Experiences and Religious Conversions | 1993 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| The epistemic innocence of psychedelic states. | 2016 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Mystical Experience and Religious Doctrine | 1982 | Theoretical or philosophical paper |