Seeing the Invisible: Modern Religious and Other Transcendent Experiences edited by M. Maxwell and V. Tschudin. Religious Experience Research Centre, University of Wales, Lampeter, 2005. (First published in 1990, reprinted in 1996, and in 2005.)

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Grahame Miles
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
The Invisible

scholarly journals Spiritual Process in Lightprayer: A Network of New Religious Practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-111
Author(s):  
Ilona Raunola
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
Central Characteristic ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Human Actors ◽  
The Invisible

The article considers the conditions of spiritual process in the new-religious movement Lightprayer. Based on the analysis, it is argued that Lightprayer itself and the techniques involved can be seen as new-religious methods of self-awareness and experienced relationship to divinity. To approach the spiritual process I will draw upon the procedures of Bruno Latour’s Agency-Network-Theory. The ethnographic material concerning the Fire Ritual is interpreted from the perspective of ANT in two ways. First, I will examine the human and non-human terms of the spiritual process in the visible world. Second, I will apply the ANT reading also regarding the invisible world of inner religious experience and thus immaterial actors. In both case I will analyze and interpret field notes, photographs and interviews. The intensity of the spiritual process can be considered as a central characteristic in the analysis of the specific traits of religious activities and also the motivations for participating in them. The perspective of ANT foregrounds the contributions and roles of the human and non-human actors in the actualization of spiritual process in Lightprayer. At the same time the research surveys the meaning of spiritual process in general among new and traditional religiousness.

scholarly journals What Counts as Religious Experience? The Inventory of Nonordinary Experiences as a Tool for Analysis across Cultures

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Taves ◽  
Melissa Gordon Wolf ◽  
Elliott Daniel Ihm ◽  
Michael Barlev ◽  
Michael Kinsella ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Cultural Validity ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Traditional Research ◽  
Item Level ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Way

When operationalizing ‘religiosity’ or ‘spirituality’ or ‘religious experience’ as measurable constructs, researchers tacitly treat them as if they were cross-culturally stable ‘things’ rather than investigating the way culturally-laden concepts, such as ‘religious’ or ‘spiritual,’ are used to interpret or appraise contested aspects of human life within and across cultures. To illustrate the distinction, we contrast the traditional research design that the Religious Experience Research Centre used to survey and compare “religious experience” in the UK and China with the appraisal-based design used by the Inventory of Nonordinary Experiences (INOE). Instead of operationalizing “religious experience,” the INOE distinguishes between generically-worded experiences and the way the experiences are appraised. When coupled with item level validation to ensure that queries are understood as intended, the generically-worded experiences function as common features that allow us to compare similarities and differences between culturally-embedded “lived” experiences. Separating generic experiences from appraisals allows us to (1) treat culture-bound concepts, such as ‘religious’ and ‘spiritual,’ as appraisals, and (2) view these and other concepts (e.g., dharmic, paranormal, psychotic) as advancing claims about how and why an experience occurred. In so far as we can establish the cross-cultural validity of common features, we can set up culturally-balanced (rather than Western-centric) comparisons and avoid operationalizing culture-specific concepts.

Divine Guidance

2020 ◽  
pp. 255-272
Author(s):  
John A. Jillions
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Mystical Experience ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Eastern Orthodox ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Rational Thought ◽  
The University ◽  
Divine Guidance

This chapter compares and contrasts the approaches to divine guidance in the Greco-Roman, Jewish, and early Christian worlds of Paul’s Corinth and their relevance for the present. Their debates about healthy and unhealthy religious life and rational thought remain remarkably contemporary. The chapter considers modern religious experience, both positive and negative, including a seminal event in the life of Martin Luther King. The Religious Experience Research Centre, based at the University of Wales, has collected over 6,000 accounts. The Centre interviewed at length two Eastern Orthodox scholars (Kallistos Ware and Lev Gillet) for their views on discerning the value of such experiences. They are wary of delusion and independently conclude that claims to divine guidance ought to be evaluated by what results they produce. But they and others hope that rational and mystical experience can be held together for the full flourishing of human life.

scholarly journals PERILAKU EKONOMI DAN KEBERAGAMAAN KOMUNITAS PEDAGANG BANJAR DALAM PERSPEKTIF SUFISTIK

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Abd. Adim
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Analytic Methods ◽  
Economic Practice ◽  
The Invisible

This research was directed to see the extent of the role of the Sufistic dimensions of economy behavior and the religiosity of Banjarese traders community. The purpose is to study the economy behavior and the religiosity of Banjarese traders community and to understand the Sufistic Dimension by using Sufistic Analysis and Max Weber’s theory. He argued that religion has implications for religious and economy thinking. Prof. Jacquen Austry argued that the Islamic concept of economics has perfection in economic practice compared to the concept of Capitalism and Socialism because it is based on the basis of Islamic teachings, namely the holy Al-Qur’an and the As-Sunnah which are absolutely true. This study is a qualitative research. It uses descriptive-analytic methods. It uses some data collection techniques; they are interview, observation and documentation. Understanding and belief in the Sufisitic Dimension which is considered important for understanding mystical privileges to open the invisible divine veils, but it can be felt as a belief in the blessing media in the area of “Ihsan” in seeking of sustenance from God, then transforms the understanding of exoteric values into esoteric characteristics according to the religious experience of the Banjarese traders community when entering the transcendental region. Penelitian ini diarahkan untuk melihat sejauh mana peran dimensi sufistik pada perilaku ekonomi dan keberagamaan komunitas pedagang Banjar. Adapun tujuannya adalah mengetahui perilaku ekonomi dan keberagamaan komunitas pedagang Banjar dalam memahami dimensi sufistik dengan menggunakan analisis sufistik dengan menggunakan teori Max Weber. Dia mengemukakan bahwa agama memberikan implikasi kepada pemikiran agama dan ekonomi. Prof Jacquen Austry mengemukakan mazhab ekonomi Islam memiliki kesempurnaan dalam praktek ekonomi dibanding Mazhab Kapitalisme dan Sosialisme karena berpatokan pada dasar ajaran Al-Qur’an dan As-Sunnah yang mutlak kebenarannya. penelitian yang digunakan adalah kualitatif melalui metode deksriptif-analitik dengan teknik pengumpulan data melalui wawancara, observasi dan dokumentasi. Oleh sebab itu sebuah pemikiran tentang fenomena perilaku ekonomi yang berada pada komunitas pedagang Banjar perlu dikaji. Jadi pemahaman dan keyakinan terhadap dimensi sufistik juga dianggap urgen dalam memahami keistimewaan mistis guna membuka tabir Ilahi yang tidak terlihat oleh mata dhahir, namun dapat dirasakan seperti keyakinan terhadap media berkah pada wilayah ihsan dalam mencari rezeki Tuhan, kemudian mentranformasikan pemahaman nilai yang bersifat eksotoris ke sifat isotoris menurut pengalaman keberagamaan komunitas pedagang (religious experience) ketika masuk ke wilayah transcendental.

scholarly journals Da vida marinha ao sentimento oceânico

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Helena de Freitas ◽  
Bettina Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Research Centre

Um reconhecido biólogo britânico, premiadíssimo por suas contribuições no estudo da vida marinha, imediatamente após se aposentar na Universidade de Oxford, no Reino Unido, aos 73 anos, passa a se dedicar integralmente ao estudo da vitalidade do fenômeno religioso, fundando uma Unidade de Pesquisa em Experiência Religiosa (RERU). Trata-se de Alister Hardy (1896-1985), cujas história, principais obras e concepções, influências recebidas e contribuições decorrentes para a Psicologia da Religião são focos deste artigo, de cunho teórico e historiográfico, escrito por ocasião dos 50 anos de fundação da referida unidade. Atualmente, situada em Lampeter, País de Gales, acolhida pela University of Wales Trinity University, desde 2000, recebe o nome de Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre (RERC).

Sight and the Byzantine icon

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angeliki Lymberopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Orthodox Christianity ◽  
Byzantine Art ◽  
Byzantine Icon ◽  
The Invisible

This article addresses the sense of sight through case studies drawn from Byzantine art, the art of Orthodox Christianity. Vision is central to Orthodox worship, facilitated by images known as icons. By enabling the visualization of the invisible divine, the importance of icons is paramount in enhancing the faithful’s religious experience.

scholarly journals The Fibonacci Life Chart Method as a Predictor of Spiritual Experience

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Robert G. Sacco
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Effect Size ◽  
Case Reports ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Spiritual Experience ◽  
Adolescents And Young Adults ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Future Research

The Fibonacci Life Chart Method (FLCM) provides a framework linking development and spirituality. This study addressed the need for empirical research to test the hypotheses proposed by Sacco (Sacco, 2016). To address this problem, this study used case reports (N = 196) from the Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre. The dynamical aspects of ages 11, 18, and 30 were examined as predictors of increased spiritual experience in adolescents and young adults. Results showed only ages 17 and 18 predicted a higher frequency of spiritual experience between ages 11 and 35. Age 18 was associated with a higher effect size (r = .27). This finding provides some empirical support for the FLCM as a predictor of spiritual experience, but not all hypotheses found support. Limitations to the study’s design are discussed along with implications for future research.

The Invisible Exit Sign

2006 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
ALAN ROCKOFF
Keyword(s):  
The Invisible
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