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Transformative Religious Experience
Author | : Joshua Iyadurai |
Publsiher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2015-04-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781498270199 |
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What makes a priest of one religion become a preacher of another religion? How could a person embrace a religion suddenly that he or she had up to then opposed? Why would young women risk their reputation and endanger their lives for the sake of newfound faith? How could an alcoholic detest a sip of wine all of a sudden? What drives an atheist to become an ardent worshiper of God? How could an intelligent person relate to God as to an adult human being? Transformative Religious Experience answers these questions with fascinating narratives of conversion. These narratives together show how the transforming effects of conversion permeate the daily lives of converts in a multireligious context. Joshua Iyadurai analyzes psychologically the mystical turning point in the conversion process and finds that the divine-human encounter entails a cognitive restructuring: a new set of beliefs, values, and desires replaces previously held religious beliefs, values, and desires. By drawing insights from the fields of psychology, sociology, anthropology, and theology, Iyadurai develops an interdisciplinary step model from a phenomenological perspective to explain the conversion process that incorporates the religious practices and social-psychological factors while giving a central place to religious experience.
Transformative Religious Experience
Author | : Joshua Iyadurai |
Publsiher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2015-04-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781620327463 |
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What makes a priest of one religion become a preacher of another religion? How could a person embrace a religion suddenly that he or she had up to then opposed? Why would young women risk their reputation and endanger their lives for the sake of newfound faith? How could an alcoholic detest a sip of wine all of a sudden? What drives an atheist to become an ardent worshiper of God? How could an intelligent person relate to God as to an adult human being? Transformative Religious Experience answers these questions with fascinating narratives of conversion. These narratives together show how the transforming effects of conversion permeate the daily lives of converts in a multireligious context. Joshua Iyadurai analyzes psychologically the mystical turning point in the conversion process and finds that the divine-human encounter entails a cognitive restructuring: a new set of beliefs, values, and desires replaces previously held religious beliefs, values, and desires. By drawing insights from the fields of psychology, sociology, anthropology, and theology, Iyadurai develops an interdisciplinary step model from a phenomenological perspective to explain the conversion process that incorporates the religious practices and social-psychological factors while giving a central place to religious experience.
The Transformative Power of Faith
Author | : Erin Dufault-Hunter |
Publsiher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2012-04-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780739175538 |
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The Transformative Power of Faith examines how and why some people, particularly those coming out of highly self-destructive, violent, and antisocial backgrounds who appear beyond repair, experience profound personal transformation through conversion to strong faith. Illustrated by stories of converts who came out of serious drug addiction, gangs, and poverty through adherence to a demanding faith, Erin Dufault-Hunter argues for a narrative approach to conversion. This holistic theoretical perspective offers an alternative epistemological stance to reductionistic models sometimes perpetuated among social scientists and religious ethicists alike. In this study, the narrative lens gives vision of the religious “Other” a depth and complexity too often lacking. Such an approach allows a deeper understanding of the dynamics of personal transformation in ways that make sense of psychological and social factors without ignoring so-called “spiritual” ones.
Religious Experience and Its Transformational Power
Author | : Sabrina Müller |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2023-06-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9783110990669 |
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The author approaches the phenomenon 'religious experience' through a qualitative study in which young, urban people from Europe and the USA are empirically examined. It becomes clear that individuals themselves are constructive agents of experience and theology. Religious experience manifests itself as a transformative perspective of hope in the lives of young people. The study ends with a plea for a theology from below, based on liberation theology and feminist theories, in which contextual perspectives are central to practical theological theorising.
Metamorphoses
Author | : Turid Karlsen Seim,Jorunn Økland |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2009-05-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9783110202991 |
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How were ideas and experiences of transformation expressed in early Christianity and early Judaism? This volume explores the social and philosophical frameworks within which transformative ideas such as resurrection and practices of becoming “a new being” were shaped. It also explores the analogies and parameters by which transformation was being observed, noted and asserted. The focus on transformation helps to connect topics that tend to be studied separately, such as cosmology, resurrection, aging, gender, and conversion. The textual material is wide-ranging and there are new readings of core passages. Ideas and experiences of transformations in early Christianity and early Judaism Connects topics that tend to be studied seperately (cosmology, resurrection, aging, gender, conversion) With wide-ranging textual material
Spiritual Transformation and Healing
Author | : Joan Koss-Chioino,Philip Hefner |
Publsiher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Conversion |
ISBN | : 0759108676 |
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A new volume exploring spiritual transformation from various disciplinary perspectives.
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Religious Experience
Author | : Patrick McNamara |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2022-06-09 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781108833172 |
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An account of the neuroscience of religious experiences for those interested in scientific approaches to religion.
The Varieties of Religious Experience
Author | : William James |
Publsiher | : The Floating Press |
Total Pages | : 824 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781877527463 |
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Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature explores the nature of religion and, in James' observation, its divorce from science when studied academically. After publication in 1902 it quickly became a canonical text of philosophy and psychology, remaining in print through the entire century. "Scientific theories are organically conditioned just as much as religious emotions are; and if we only knew the facts intimately enough, we should doubtless see 'the liver' determining the dicta of the sturdy atheist as decisively as it does those of the Methodist under conviction anxious about his soul. When it alters in one way the blood that percolates it, we get the Methodist, when in another way, we get the atheist form of mind."