Abstract
This paper attempts to offer a pluralist realist account of the diversity of religious experience. In the first part, I show that an influential trend in contemporary philosophy of religious experience and religious pluralism is based on the mediational image of knowledge and a problematic notion of interpretation, which generates irresoluble problems. I then attempt a redescription based on an extension of Heidegger’s theory of understanding as pre-theorical engagement with the world, which allows for the conciliation of the diversity of religious experience with its claimed epistemic force. To develop this argument, finally, I present the experience of diversity proper of the contemporary world as a type of spiritual experience in which the traits of a pre-theoretical religious understanding can be found. As a result, the paper suggests a move from epistemology to spirituality for a better understanding of religious experience.
Translated title of the contribution | Diversidad e interpretación: Hacia una descripción pluralista realista de la experiencia religiosa |
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Original language | English |
Article number | 848 |
Pages (from-to) | 1 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Religions |
Volume | 12 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 9 2021 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Social Sciences
- Philosophy