Mysticism: No Experience Necessary?

dc.contributor.authorBocking, Brian
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-23T10:59:49Z
dc.date.available2020-06-23T10:59:49Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.date.updated2020-06-19T14:41:09Z
dc.description.abstractRobert Sharf argues that if a religious or mystical experience conveys any meaning at all, that meaning derives from shared public discourse, not from the experience as such. Sharf’s argument is, or should be, unsettling for anyone who naively thinks that religious beliefs are grounded in religious experiences. In this paper I examine Sharf’s arguments and suggest another way of approaching the notion of mystical or religious experience within the study of religions. Distinguishing between mystical experience and mystical teachings can help to explain how ‘experience’ can retain a meaningful place in mysticism.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationBocking, B. (2006) 'Mysticism: No Experience Necessary?', DISKUS, 7, (13 pp). Available online: http://www.basr.ac.uk/diskus/diskus7/bocking.htmen
dc.identifier.endpage13en
dc.identifier.issn0967-8948
dc.identifier.journaltitleDISKUSen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/10166
dc.identifier.volume7en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherBritish Association for the Study of Religions (BASR)en
dc.relation.urihttp://jbasr.com/basr/diskus/diskus7/bocking.htm
dc.rights© 2006 the author. Published by British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR)en
dc.subjectStudy of Religionsen
dc.subjectMysticismen
dc.subjectReligious experienceen
dc.subjectMystical experienceen
dc.titleMysticism: No Experience Necessary?en
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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