Religion and interpretations of experience

This thesis grows out of a preoccupation with : (a) the status of religious lan~uage and (b) the status of foreign and contrary doctrines to those of th~ writer's culture. Prejudices which informed the writer's approach to his subject were : (a) that people do have what may be called religious experience, that religious language is interpretative of that experience and can be adequate as providing a means to communicate about it; and (b) that foreign doctrines, while false perhaps absurd to non-participants in a culture, can be considered adequate to the expression of what goes into experience in that culture and should therefore be considered true in their own terms .

Grantor

Department of Religious Studies

Year dc:date.issued

1977

Author dc:creator

• J H, Hofmeyr

• Theology

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/40139

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/40139