Religious experience and desire

Metaphor, Religious Language and Religious Experience

Is it possible to talk about God without either misrepresentation or failing to assert anything of significance? The article begins by reviewing how, in attempting to answer this question, traditional theories of religious language have failed to sidestep both potential pitfalls adequately. After arguing that recently developed theories of metaphor seem better able to shed light on the nature o...

Psychedelics and Religious Experience

Religious Experience and Mystical Intuition Structurally Compared

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The Inside and Outside: Religious Experience and Religious Thought

My purpose in this essay is to explore religious experience and religious thought and the relation between the two, for how these two are conceived has an important bearing on how we understand the meaningfulness of religion and religious traditions. My starting point is Peter Berger's recent work. The Heretical Imperative (Anchor/Doubleday, 1980), in which he summarizes the various strategies ...

Religious Faith and Development : Explorations and Experience

Though many institutions making up the international aid system engaged quite episodically with faith institutions in the past, this situation is changing. Change is propelled by the resurgence and greater assertiveness of faith institutions on one side and by more intensive engagement among public and civil society institutions and growing appreciation of the importance of community participat...