Diversity and Interpretation: Toward a Pluralist Realist Description of Religious Experience

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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 contributionDiversidad e interpretación: Hacia una descripción pluralista realista de la experiencia religiosa
Original languageEnglish
Article number848
Pages (from-to)1
Number of pages13
JournalReligions
Volume12
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 9 2021

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  • General Social Sciences
  • Philosophy

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