Religious Experience Reconsidered

Book by Ann Taves

Religious Experience Reconsidered (2009) 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

• Mystical experience

References

1. Princeton University Press, Religious Experience Reconsidered
2. Knott 2010.

Sources

• Knott, Kim (2010), "Specialness and the sacred: Ann Taves, Religious Experience Reconsidered", Religion, 40 (4): 305–307, doi:10.1016/j.religion.2010.09.007
• Taves, Ann (2009), Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things, Princeton University Press