Experientia, Volume 2: Linking Text And Experience (early Judaism And Its Literature)
by Colleen Shantz /
2012 / English / PDF
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This collection of essays continues the investigation of religious
experience in early Judaism and early Christianity begun in
Experientia, Volume 1, by addressing one of the traditional
objections to the study of experience in antiquity. The authors
address the relationship between the surviving evidence, which is
textual, and the religious experiences that precede or ensue from
those texts. Drawing on insights from anthropology, sociology,
social memory theory, neuroscience, and cognitive science, they
explore a range of religious phenomena including worship, the act
of public reading, ritual, ecstasy, mystical ascent, and the
transformation of gender and of emotions. Through careful and
theoretically informed work, the authors demonstrate the
possibility of moving from written documents to assess the lived
experiences that are linked to them. The contributors are István
Czachesz, Frances Flannery, Robin Griffith-Jones, Angela Kim
Harkins, Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte, John R. Levison, Carol A.
Newsom, Rollin A. Ramsaran, Colleen Shantz, Leif E. Vaage, and
Rodney A. Werline.
This collection of essays continues the investigation of religious
experience in early Judaism and early Christianity begun in
Experientia, Volume 1, by addressing one of the traditional
objections to the study of experience in antiquity. The authors
address the relationship between the surviving evidence, which is
textual, and the religious experiences that precede or ensue from
those texts. Drawing on insights from anthropology, sociology,
social memory theory, neuroscience, and cognitive science, they
explore a range of religious phenomena including worship, the act
of public reading, ritual, ecstasy, mystical ascent, and the
transformation of gender and of emotions. Through careful and
theoretically informed work, the authors demonstrate the
possibility of moving from written documents to assess the lived
experiences that are linked to them. The contributors are István
Czachesz, Frances Flannery, Robin Griffith-Jones, Angela Kim
Harkins, Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte, John R. Levison, Carol A.
Newsom, Rollin A. Ramsaran, Colleen Shantz, Leif E. Vaage, and
Rodney A. Werline.