Religious experience revisited : expressing the inexpressible? / edited by Thomas Hardtke, Ulrich Schmiedel, and Tobias Tan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction: Experience or Expression? A Puzzling Oversight; Part 1 Grasping the Ungraspable?; Chapter 1 How to do Transcendence with Words? The Problem of Articulation in Religious Experience; Chapter 2 Modern Trials and Tests of 'Experience': Plastic Commonplace and Managed Exception; Part 2 Imagining the Unimaginable?; Chapter 3 Fiercely Proselytizing and Feverishly Protective: Reading John's Revelation with Jacques Derrida; Chapter 4 Religious Experience without Belief? Toward an Imaginative Account of Religious Engagement.

Chapter 5 "Is that You?" Hearing God's Voice in the Words of a Stranger (Judges 6:11-24)Chapter 6 Living with Invisibility: Emotion, Mind, and Transcendence; Part 3 Interpreting the Uninterpretable?; Chapter 7 Navid Kermani's Poetic Hermeneutics of Religious Experiences; Chapter 8 The Complexity of Hermeneutical Experience: Transcendence and Transformation; Chapter 9 "Mediated Immediacy": Karl Rahner and Edward Schillebeeckx on the Non-Reflective Element of Experience; Chapter 10 Supra-Religious? The Concept of Transcendental Experience and the (In- )Accessibility of the Absolute.

Part 4 Performing the Unperformable?Chapter 11 The Trouble with Trust in the Transcendent: Ernst Troeltsch's Reception of William James; Chapter 12 The Corporeality of Religious Experience: Embodied Cognition in Religious Practices; Chapter 13 Religious Experience in Fourteenth-Century Mystical Writing: The Revelations of Elsbeth von Oye; Chapter 14 Speaking of God: Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Paradox of Religious Experience; Conclusion: Experience or Expression? Preserving the Puzzle; Index of Names; Index of Subjects.

Religious Experience Revisited' explores a dilemma which has haunted the study of religion since William James. Is religion rooted in experiences? Is religion rooted in expressions? How are experiences and expressions related? The contributors to this international and interdisciplinary compilation explore the possibilities and the impossibilities of a hermeneutics of religion. Combining theology and philosophy with biblical, cultural, historical and literary studies, they examine how religious experiences and religious expressions have been entangled in the past and in the present. These entanglements call for interdisciplinary conversations in which those who study experiences and those who study expressions can learn from each other in order to carve out important and instructive spaces for the study of religion.

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