Diversity and Interpretation. Toward a Pluralist Realist Description of Religious Experience
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...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b5931a32014848c18eb761d961b426fc2023-11-22T19:52:03ZengMDPI AGReligions2077-14442021-10-01121084810.3390/rel12100848Diversity and Interpretation. Toward a Pluralist Realist Description of Religious ExperienceCarlos Miguel Gómez Rincón0School of Human Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Cll 14 #6–25, Bogotá 111221, ColombiaThis 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.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/10/848realism and anti-realismreligious pluralismtranscendencehermeneuticsspirituality |
| spellingShingle | Carlos Miguel Gómez Rincón Diversity and Interpretation. Toward a Pluralist Realist Description of Religious Experience Religions realism and anti-realism religious pluralism transcendence hermeneutics spirituality |
| title | Diversity and Interpretation. Toward a Pluralist Realist Description of Religious Experience |
| title_full | Diversity and Interpretation. Toward a Pluralist Realist Description of Religious Experience |
| title_fullStr | Diversity and Interpretation. Toward a Pluralist Realist Description of Religious Experience |
| title_full_unstemmed | Diversity and Interpretation. Toward a Pluralist Realist Description of Religious Experience |
| title_short | Diversity and Interpretation. Toward a Pluralist Realist Description of Religious Experience |
| title_sort | diversity and interpretation toward a pluralist realist description of religious experience |
| topic | realism and anti-realism religious pluralism transcendence hermeneutics spirituality |
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