Religious Experience Reconsidered
Religious Experience Reconsidered is a book by Ann Taves on the study of religious experience. She proposes a new approach, which takes into account the attribution of religious meaning to specific events, using the term "specialness."[1] "The focus of the book is on experiences deemed religious (and, by extension, other things considered special) rather than "religious experience.""[1]
Reception
Kim Knott calls Taves approach an encompassing framework, which can take into account a multitude of things. She doubts, though, if the term "specialness" can replace the term "sacredness."[2]
See also
References
Sources
- Knott, Kim (2010), "Specialness and the sacred: Ann Taves, Religious Experience Reconsidered", Religion. Volume 40, Issue 4, October 2010, Pages 305–307
- Taves, Ann (2009), Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things, Princeton University Press
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