Religious Experience and Its Transformational Power : Qualitative and Hermeneutic Approaches to a Practical Theological Foundational Concept

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 manif...

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Main Author: Müller, Sabrina, 1980-
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2023.
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Preface --  |t Contents --  |t List of figures --  |t 1 Introduction: religious experience as a practical theological challenge --  |t Part I Sensitizing Concepts --  |t Introduction --  |t 2 "Religious experience": a conceptual approach --  |t 3 Human existence in late modernity --  |t Part II Methodological Interlude --  |t Introduction --  |t 4 Practical theology within the horizon of qualitative social research -- Methodology --  |t Part III A Grounded Theory on the Change of the Frame of Reference through Religious Experience --  |t Introduction --  |t 5 Individual case presentation: the content of religious experience --  |t 6 Excursus: Inner aspects and basic observations on the religious experiences of the cross-case and cross-group evaluation --  |t 7 Processual aspects: Religious experience and the change of the personal frame of reference -- cross-case and cross-group evaluation --  |t Part IV Discussion and Outlook --  |t Introduction --  |t 8 Interpretation of the results within the horizon of the initial questions --  |t 9 Experiencing the Christian perspectives of hope -- a practical theological outlook --  |t 10 Bibliography --  |t Register 
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