The religious experience according to Charles Taylor
The paper dialogues with the concept of religious experience in Charles Taylor. Our purpose is both to confront the emerging notion of religious experience in the work of William James with the conception that Taylor formulates, and to insert Taylor’s notion in the larger context of his work. As we...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) |
| Repositorio: | Memorandum (Belo Horizonte) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufmg.br:article/45783 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/memorandum/article/view/45783 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | psicologia e religião experiências religiosas Charles Taylor William James psychology and religion religious experiences |
| Sumario: | The paper dialogues with the concept of religious experience in Charles Taylor. Our purpose is both to confront the emerging notion of religious experience in the work of William James with the conception that Taylor formulates, and to insert Taylor’s notion in the larger context of his work. As we will see, the religious experience in Taylor is not only thought of as a mystical-religious experience, according to James's approach, but also as an ethical-moral experience. From the phenomenological notion of the world, we outline the basic understanding of belief in the pre-modern world, followed by the modern transformations caused by the disenchantment of the world and the Protestant Reformation. Then, we focus on the individualist cultural revolution of the 20th century, putting into perspective the impacts on the understanding of belief. For Taylor, although religious experience has been understood more and more as an individual experience, the content of that experience is still collective. |
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