TY  - GEN
AU  -  Taves, Ann,
ED  -  American Council of Learned Societies.
TI  -  Religious experience reconsidered: a bu ilding-block approach to the study of religion and other special things 
PY  - 2009///
CY  -  Princeton, N.J.
PB  -  Princeton University Press
KW  -  Experience (Religion)
KW  -  Meaning (Philosophy)
KW  -  Religious aspects
N1  -  Includes bibliographical references and indexes;  Introduction: The problem of "religious experience." Experiences dee med religious ; Previous work ; The argument ; Why an attributional app roach is better -- Religion : deeming things religious. The sui generis and ascriptive models of "religious experience." Deeming things religi ous ; Special things and things set apart ; Setting up research ; Concl usion: a four-fold matrix -- Experience : accessing conscious behavior. Clarifying the concept ; Accessing experience ; Representation and exp erience revisited ; Conclusion -- Explanation : attributing causality. Attribution theory : an overview ; An attributional theory of religion ; Four levels of analysis and attribution ; Conclusion -- Comparison : constructing an object of study. Comparing experiences ; Specifying a p oint of comparison ; Comparing simple and composite formations ; Imagin ation and reality -- Religions : a building block approach. Building bl ocks ; Religions as composite formations ; Implications;  Electronic text and image data;  Ann Arbor, Mich.;  University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing;  2013;  Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text;  ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]);  Mode of a ccess: Intranet
UR  -  http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.30746
ER  -