@article{351759,
      recid = {351759},
      author = {Taves, Ann,},
      title = {Religious experience reconsidered a building block  approach to the study of religion and other special things  / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Princeton University Press,},
      address = {Princeton, N.J. :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xv, 212 p.)},
      year = {2009},
      note = {Description based on print version record.},
      abstract = {The essence of religion was once widely thought to be a  unique form of experience that could not be explained in  neurological, psychological, or sociological terms. In  recent decades scholars have questioned the privileging of  the idea of religious experience in the study of religion,  an approach that effectively isolated the study of religion  from the social and natural sciences. Religious Experience  Reconsidered lays out a framework for research into  religious phenomena that reclaims experience as a central  concept while bridging the divide between religious studies  and the sciences. Ann Taves shifts the focus from  "religious experience," conceived as a fixed and stable  thing, to an examination of the processes by which people  attribute meaning to their experiences. She proposes a new  approach that unites the study of religion with fields as  diverse as neuroscience, anthropology, sociology, and  psychology to better understand how these processes are  incorporated into the broader cultural formations we think  of as religious or spiritual.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/351759},
}