The New Psychology and Religious Experience

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...

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 ...

The religious implications of Jung's psychology.

Carl Gustav Jung, as the founder of the school of ana-lytical psychology, has been a prominent figure inpsycho-logical investigation for over a third of a century.The psychological approach which Jung represents isunique in that it places a special emphasis upon the placeof religion in personality dynamics.While Jung hasreceivedwidespread attention over t...

Psychedelics and Religious Experience

ترجمه و نقد کتاب the justification of science and the rationality of religious belife

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