The Numinous, the Ethical, and the Body. Rudolf Otto’s “The Idea of the Holy” Revisited
In this paper, I investigate the non-rational, affective dimension of religious experience that Rudolf Otto attempted to address with his notion of the numinous. I argue that this notion is best understood in terms of an atmospheric quality impacting on the subject’s feeling body. Therefore, I draw...
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| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2017-10-01
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| Series: | Open Theology |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opth-2017-0042 |