Religion

Immediate Experience and the Mediacy of Research: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Objectives, Concepts and Methodology of Empirical Research in Religion

edited by Christopher P. Scholtz and Hans-Gunter Heimbrock

Book cover: Religion

Extent: 283 pages

Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Subjects: Religious Studies

Series: Research in Contemporary Religion

Series volume number: 1

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 2007)

ISBN: 9783525604342

Price: $88.00

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This volume deals with the question of how the immediacy of religious experience can best and scientifically apt be presented? Twelve internationally renowned scholars from Europe, North America, and Africa approach this fundamental issue drawing from their expertise in theology, the philosophy of religion, cultural anthropology, and the social sciences. In doing so this volume relates to a broad scope of religious experience from various cultural and religious contexts.

  • Edited by Hans-Günter Heimbrock
  • Edited by Christopher Scholtz