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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Religious experiences"”.
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Divine Disclosures: Religious Experiences as Evidence in Theology
… that scepticism about the evidential force of religious experiences is driven by concerns about the traditional practices used to discern between ‘illusory’ and ‘genuine’ experiences. As these practices require commitment to a particular tradition, we have no way of deciding which practice to …
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Religious Experiences Reflected in Works of Aubrey De Vere
This paper deals with the religious experiences of Aubrey De Vere as reflected in his writings and is an attempt to trace them with a view to making one of Ireland's foremost poets better known and appreciated. To this end most trustworthy aid was sought and obtained in Wilfrid Ward's Aubrey De …
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A quantitative investigation of normative and deviant religious experiences.
Previous quantitative investigations of religious experiences in the social sciences have primarily focused on broad questions. Data from the Baylor Religion Survey provide information on specific types of religious experiences rather than asking a general, all-encompassing question on the topic. …
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Islamist Biographies: Religious Experiences of South African Muslim Activists
… collective. Simultaneously, they also used religious ideology to reconstruct their identities within the private sphere. This study places emphasis on the everyday lives of Islamists. By suggesting that South African Islamism can best be viewed as the sum of a multitude of journeys of …
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Musical and Religious Experiences: Their Relationship and Influences on Humanity
… investigate the relationship between musical and religious experiences and the similarities that have made them such emotionally-charging phenomena. Because of the power of music and religion to promote feelings of happiness, lucidity, and escape from everyday living, both have enriched the lives …
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What Makes For Credible Religious Testimony? Exploring Belief And Skepticism About Others' Religious Experiences
… testimony in the formation and transmission of religious beliefs, focusing on the factors that influence its perceived credibility. Testimony is vital for sharing and reinforcing beliefs about experiences that cannot be directly tested, as is often the case with religious beliefs. These beliefs …
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Exploring the Lived Religious Experiences of Gay and Lesbian Ordained Clergy in the United Methodist Church
… ordained elders in the UMC to learn about their experiences of serving as clergy people in the UMC even though there are prohibitive statements in church documents. Firstly, the interviews revealed that the participants feel loved and called by God and are attempting to live into their vocation. …
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A critical evaluation of the religious festival and pilgrimage of Maha Shivaratri in Mauritius: the religious experiences of local Hindu participants, the authenticity of the religious experiences and the perceived potential impacts of any future commoditisation on those experiences.
… study focuses on the annual, and century-old, religious festival and pilgrimage of Maha Shivaratri (Festival) in Mauritius. The Festival, consisting of a pilgrimage to a sacred site, is celebrated by those of the Hindu faith in reverence to Lord Shiva. This research critically evaluated the …
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To what extent do ‘processes of the mind’, consistent with evolutionary psychology, account for religious experiences involving the Trinity?
… evolutionary psychology, facilitate subjective experiences of God as Trinity. Christians have for nearly two millennia reported experiences believed to involve the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Such experiences contributed to the hermeneutics that eventually discerned the Nicene Trinity, …
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Faith embodied: A comparative analysis of the body’s connection to religion through ritual in the Hindu and Christian context
… traditional assumptions of dualism and religious dismissal of embodied reality, scholars can engage with the lived experience of religion. Religious rituals point to the centrality of the body in religious experiences. A closer look at ritual and its relationship to faith and the body, …
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Temporal Lobe Transients and Prayer
<p>Persinger (1983) theorized that religious experiences involve the production of brief, micro-seizures that originate in the limbic system and affect the temporal lobes of the brain. According to this theory, ritual behavior could be used by individuals to induce micro-seizure activity. The …
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A critical comparison of William James and Søren Kierkegaard on religious belief
… is a critical comparison of the accounts of religious belief proposed by<br/>William James and Søren Kierkegaard. Both James and Kierkegaard greatly emphasize<br/>the subjective aspects of religious belief. In view of this fact, surprisingly little<br/>comparative work has been done in this …
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The source and authority of prophecy in the Old Testament period
… God's spokesman. These factors are both the religious experiences to which he laid claim, and the many human influences that derived from his family life, the accumulating tradition which he inherited and upon which he was nurtured, and the varied experiences that cmne his way in his personel …
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In the shadow of death : insecurity and miracles in Latin America.
… Existential threat theories would predict religious experiences are not necessarily related to individual education or income, but rather the economic and political stability that often accompanies modernization. Even in modern nations, those who experience threats to their existence are …
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Roots and wings: orthodoxy, tradition, and creativity in Irish folk Catholicism
… to better interpret, articulate, and create religious experiences. Ethnographic fieldwork was the principal method of data collection. Four areas of folk religion are given special attention: the use of religious narrative to represent and reproduce religious experience, the use of material …
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The Longitudinal Profiles of Child and Parent Religiousness and Spirituality: Their Relations With Child Adjustment
… has documented many relations between child religiousness/spirituality (R/S) and outcomes including externalizing symptomatology, internalizing symptomatology, substance use, and sexual behaviors. Yet no previous studies have examined child R/S and parent R/S using a person centered approach. …
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Contemporary American sport, muscular Christianity, Lance Armstrong, and religious experience
… in contemporary American sport culture and religious sensibilities. In this project I demonstrate that sport can be viewed in contemporary American culture operating as a culturally influential activity where athletes reproduce muscular Christian ideology in unique ways. To illustrate this …
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Relational Interreligious Dialogue: Interdisciplinary Arguments from Creator/Creature Theology and Quantum Entanglement
… advances, and worldviews that perceive religious others with suspicion, all intensify society’s awareness of religious plurality and the subsequent necessity for effective interreligious dialogue. Engaging in interreligious dialogue through daily encounters, conversations, common …
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Medieval Japanese Zen: Catalyst for Symbol System Formation
… religion as well as art. In striving to describe religious experiences, various cultures have developed complex symbolic languages whose purpose is to reference a culturally understood version of sacred reality as presented through religion. Religions contribute to shaping these cultural …
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Exploring health-seeking behaviours among Nigerians in the UK: towards improved healthcare utilisation
… immigrants due to heavy reliance on cultural and religious cure methods. The aim of this thesis therefore, was to explore how Nigerians in the UK engage with the British health system. This objective was pursued by integrating immigration issues, with factors associated with decisions to seek …
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