Experientia, Volume 2: Moving from Text to Experience

Experientia, Volume 2: Moving from Text to Experience

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Editors: Colleen Shantz and Rodney Werline

Contributing author: Angela Kim Harkins

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Angela Kim Harkins is a contributing author, "Religious Experience through the Lens of Critical Spatiality: A Look at Embodiment Language in Prayers and Hymns", pp. 223-242.

Book description: This collection of essays continues the investigation of religious experience in early Judaism and early Christianity begun in Experientia, Volume 1, by addressing one of the traditional objections to the study of experience in antiquity. The authors address the relationship between the surviving evidence, which is textual, and the religious experiences that precede or ensue from those texts. Drawing on insights from anthropology, sociology, social memory theory, neuroscience, and cognitive science, they explore a range of religious phenomena including worship, the act of public reading, ritual, ecstasy, mystical ascent, and the transformation of gender and of emotions. Through careful and theoretically informed work, the authors demonstrate the possibility of moving from written documents to assess the lived experiences that are linked to them. The contributors are István Czachesz, Frances Flannery, Robin Griffith-Jones, Angela Kim Harkins, Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte, John R. Levison, Carol A. Newsom, Rollin A. Ramsaran, Colleen Shantz, Leif E. Vaage, and Rodney A. Werline. -- Publisher description.

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9781589836693

Publication Date

2012

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Harkins, Angela Kim (2012) “Religious Experience through the Lens of Critical Spatiality: A Look at Embodiment Language in Prayers and Hymns.” Pp. 223-242 IN Experientia, Volume 2: Moving from Text to Experience. Edited by Colleen Shantz and Rodney Werline. Socety of Biblical Literature Press. 9781589836693

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Experientia, Volume 2: Moving from Text to Experience

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