scholarly journals Introduction to “Religious Experience in the Hindu Tradition”

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 329
Author(s):  
June McDaniel
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Religious Experiences ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Hindu Tradition ◽  
The Third ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The World

This special issue of Religions brings together a talented group of international scholars who have studied and written on the Hindu tradition. The topic of religious experience is much debated in the field of Religious Studies, and here we present studies of Hindu religious experience explored from a variety of regions and perspectives. They are intended to show that religious experience has long been an important part of Hinduism, and we consider them to be important and relevant. As a body of scholarship, these articles refine our understanding of the range and variety of religious experience in Hinduism. In addition to their substantive contributions, the authors also show important new directions in the study of the third-largest religion in the world, with over one billion followers. This introduction will discuss some relevant issues in the field of Indology, some problems of language, and the difficulties faced in the study of religious experience. It will also give a brief sketch of the religious experiences described by our authors in some major types of Hinduism.

Religious Studies of Democratic Ukraine

2001 ◽  
pp. 3-12
Author(s):  
Anatolii M. Kolodnyi
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Religious Experiences ◽  
Divine Nature ◽  
Deep Roots ◽  
Integral System ◽  
The World

Ukrainian religious studies have deep roots. We find the elements of it in the written descendants of the writings of Kievan Rus. From the prince's time, the universal way of vision, understanding and appreciation of the world for many Ukrainian thinkers becomes their own religious experiences. The main purpose of their works is not the desire to create a certain integral system of theological knowledge, but the desire to convey their personal religious-minded perception of the divine nature, harmony, beauty and perfection of God created the world.

Black-Palestinian Transnational Solidarity: Renewals, Returns, and Practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noura Erakat ◽  
Marc Lamont Hill
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Political Work ◽  
Introductory Essay ◽  
Recent Increase ◽  
Political Relationships ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The World ◽  
New Methodologies ◽  
Transnational Solidarity

This introductory essay outlines the context for this special issue of the Journal of Palestine Studies on Black-Palestinian transnational solidarity (BPTS). Through the analytic of “renewal,” the authors point to the recent increase in individual and collective energies directed toward developing effective, reciprocal, and transformative political relationships within various African-descendant and Palestinian communities around the world. Drawing from the extant BPTS literature, this essay examines the prominent intellectual currents in the field and points to new methodologies and analytics that are required to move the field forward. With this essay, the authors aim not only to contextualize the field and to frame this special issue, but also to chart new directions for future intellectual and political work.

Contacts and Networks in the Baltic Sea Region

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Cultural Goods ◽  
The Third ◽  
Baltic Sea Region ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Baltic

Since prehistoric times, the Baltic Sea has functioned as a northern mare nostrum — a crucial nexus that has shaped the languages, folklore, religions, literature, technology, and identities of the Germanic, Finnic, Sámi, Baltic, and Slavic peoples. This anthology explores the networks among those peoples. The contributions to Contacts and Networks in the Baltic Sea Region: Austmarr as a Northern mare nostrum, ca. 500-1500 ad address different aspects of cultural contacts around and across the Baltic from the perspectives of history, archaeology, linguistics, literary studies, religious studies, and folklore. The introduction offers a general overview of crosscultural contacts in the Baltic Sea region as a framework for contextualizing the volume’s twelve chapters, organized in four sections. The first section concerns geographical conceptions as revealed in Old Norse and in classical texts through place names, terms of direction, and geographical descriptions. The second section discusses the movement of cultural goods and persons in connection with elite mobility, the slave trade, and rune-carving practice. The third section turns to the history of language contacts and influences, using examples of Finnic names in runic inscriptions and Low German loanwords in Finnish. The final section analyzes intercultural connections related to mythology and religion spanning Baltic, Finnic, Germanic, and Sámi cultures. Together these diverse articles present a dynamic picture of this distinctive part of the world.

Introduction to Special Issue: Human Trafficking

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Winterdyk ◽  
Philip Reichel
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Major Project

This special issue focuses on a crime that has been classified by the United Nations as the third most profitable crime in the world — human trafficking (Fichtelberg 2008). 1 The international contributions in this issue cover a range of key social, economic, political and legal issues as they relate to human trafficking. The genesis for this collection evolved out of a major project led by Philip Reichel which was completed in 2007. Reichel and an international team examined Canadian and US practices of combating human trafficking. In addition, the project explored a range of initiatives used in Europe and proposed by the United Nations.2 Before presenting an overview of the articles, we thought it instructive to provide a synopsis of some of the fundamental issues involved in human trafficking. Our thinking was that a brief discussion of these more general, descriptive, theoretical and practical issues would provide some context for readers unfamiliar with the subject of human trafficking.

scholarly journals Horizons on Christianity's New Dialogue with Buddhism

Horizons ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-61
Author(s):  
Paul F. Knitter
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Religious Language ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The World ◽  
Christian Literature

AbstractA survey of recent Christian literature on the dialogue with Buddhism reveals a conversation which is new in both spirit and content. This article summarizes these new directions in five areas: (1) the methodology of dialogue; (2) the nature of the Ultimate and of religious language; (3) religious experience as an experience of selflessness; (4) the value and need of acting in the world, and (5) the unique, salvific mediation of Jesus and Gautama. In each of these areas, suggestions are offered as to how the new insights from the dialogue with Buddhism might aid in clarifying questions and incoherencies in present-day Christian doctrine and practice.

On a Sociological Challenge to the Veridicality of Religious Experience

1998 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
JEROME GELLMAN
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Mystical Experience ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Spirit Possession ◽  
Burden Of Proof ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Religious Experiences ◽  
Mystical Experiences ◽  
Sociological Explanation

This paper replies to Evan Fales' sociological explanation of mystical experience in two articles in Religious Studies vol. 32 (143–63 and 297–313). In these papers Fales applies the ideas of I. M. Lewis on spirit possession to show how mystical experiences can be accounted for as vehicles for the acquisition of political power and social control. The rebuttal of Fales contains three main elements: (a) the presentation of specific examples of theistic mystical experience from Christianity and Judaism which provide counter-examples to Fales' theory; (b) the presentation of some general objections to its plausibility; and (c) an argument for the conclusion that the burden of proof lies with naturalistic, reductionist explanations of religious experiences rather than with theistic interpretations of those experiences.

scholarly journals Senseless Pain in the Phenomenology of Religious Experience

Open Theology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 510-519
Author(s):  
Emil Salim
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Religious Experiences ◽  
The Third

AbstractThere are three models of pain in the phenomenology of religious experience. The first model suggests that pain is instrumental to attaining the desired religious experience. The second model proposes that pain is constitutive of the desired religious experience. The third model, which is a model of senseless pain in religious experience, is underdeveloped. I provide an exposition of this model in this article. I also give four arguments for the necessity of affirming senseless pain in the phenomenology of religious experience. First, affirming senseless pain in religious experience provides a way to describe the process of purpose attribution to pain qua a sensation or a feeling. Second, such an affirmation also provides a way for describing the meaning formation in religious experience through interpreting pain qua symbol. Third, the affirmation is also necessary to maintain continuity between mundane and religious experiences. There are instances of senseless pain in the literature on tragedy, chronic pain, and torture. Maintaining continuity between ordinary and religious experiences via the notion of senseless pain opens the possibility of developing mysticism in everyday life. Lastly, the presence of the unknown in senseless pain makes room for mystery in religious experience.

scholarly journals Introducing ‘Disruption’ to Acute Religious Experiences: An Interdisciplinary approach to a multidisciplinary problem

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Richard Saville-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Altered States ◽  
Religious Experiences ◽  
The Past ◽  
States Of Consciousness ◽  
The Us ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
Meta Analyses

Psychiatry and Religious Studies have common interests in extreme and extraordinary states when articulated in the languages of religions. For Religious Studies the problems with the category of religious experience are philosophical and profound; whilst the resurgence of interest in religion by psychiatrists (three meta-analyses in the past five years) has not repaired the damaging legacy of reductionist interpretations. In this paper I adopt an interdisciplinary approach to the religious experience discourse. From psychiatry I apply the new idea of Disruption, which makes its first appearance in the US psychiatric textbook DSM-5 (APA, 2013); and the older Biopsychosocial model (Engel, 1977). From Physiology I apply the language of ‘ictal’ (Adachi, 2002, 2010) to privilege a dynamic idea of time. These concepts involve particular epistemological presuppositions and, as this is an interdisciplinary, rather than a multidisciplinary contribution, these will be critically developed. The approach I propose provides a way of holistically addressing the categories of Mysticism, Possession and Altered States of Consciousness, as acute or extreme categories of experience. I propose that the idea of ‘Disruption’ can act as a pre-interpretive placeholder for a real existential experience which might (or might not) result in a non-pathological diagnosis of religious experience. The outcome depends on the socialisation of interpretation. I hope to show that the idea that there might be alternative interpretations removes the need for a sui generis defence of religious experience. By insisting on a biopsychosocial approach within an ictal framework, a way beyond the linguistic impasse of interpretation is proposed; the essentialism, implicit in the mysticism discourse, is questioned; and the non-medicalisation of Possession confirmed. The limitations of this paper point to the opportunity for further conversations between interested parties, including people with experiences of Disruption.

scholarly journals Particular and universal norms of Shinran's religious experience

2006 ◽  
Vol 73 (436-441) ◽  
pp. 282-285
Author(s):  
Hoyu Ishida
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Western Thought ◽  
University Center ◽  
Kamakura Period ◽  
The World ◽  
Divinity School ◽  
The University

The author, Professor of Religious Studies and English at the University Center for Intercultural Education, University of Shiga Prefecture, Japan,and Guest Professor of the University of the Air, is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School and Stanford University, USA. He has published many articles and papers in the areas of comparative studies of Eastern and Western thought with emphasis on Buddhism. Professor Ishida is the author of several books - one of which is on John Lennon, the former leader of the Beatles. He is currently working on a book on Shinran and Dogen, two of the leading figures of the "reformed Buddhism" of the Kamakura period (1185- 1333) in Japan. The text that follows is a slightly revised and edited version of a paper presented by the author at the international symposion on "Globalization and Local Identity", organized jointly by the World Society for Ekistics and the University of Shiga Prefecture in Hikone, Japan, 19-24 September, 2005.

scholarly journals Czyje góry: Boga czy Śmierci? O dwóch romantycznych modelach interpretacji krajobrazu

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 151-168
Author(s):  
Ewa Kolbuszewska ◽  
Milan Lesiak
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Causes Of Death ◽  
Sacred Space ◽  
Religious Experiences ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
Mountain Landscape ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Mystical Experiences ◽  
Religious Nature

In the article the author seeks to answer the question — suggested by Romantic accounts — about whether the most colourful feature of mountain landscape is its religious nature or whether its most evident characteristics are those that turn it into a land of death. Drawing on biblical arguments, Romantic culture assigned to the mountains attributes of sacred a space inspiring strong religious experiences verging on mystical experiences (Ludwik Zejszner). Thus in the Romantic way of thinking the mountains became witnesses to the creation of the world (Antoni Czajkowski), while the natural landscape began to be viewed as hypostasis of divinity. That is why a homage paid to nature became a religious experience and a tribute to the greatness of God. Hierophanies turning the mountains into a sacred space generated strong religious responses in Romantic subjects; they encouraged prayer and prayerful ritualisation of behaviour. A Romantic wanderer felt a sense of unity with God both on top of a mountain and by the Morskie Oko lake. However, the mountains were also presented many times as a space of death, a fact stemming from the terror of their landscape. Romantic tourists were made aware of this omnipresence of death in the mountains by crosses placed in the mountains as well as graves scattered across them. Victims of the mountains included highlanders, tourists, treasure hunters and poachers. That is why in some literary visions various places in the mountains appeared as a big graveyard (“Czarny Staw as the capital of death”, Łucja Rautenstrauchowa). In the article the author points to various causes of death and characteristic ways of dying in the mountains.

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