| 期刊全称 | A Comparative Doxastic-Practice Epistemology of Religious Experience | | 影响因子2023 | Mark Owen Webb | | 视频video | | | 发行地址 | Takes a theoretical enterprise in Christian philosophy of religion and applies it to Buddhism.Examines what goes on in religious experiences, helping us to understand whether it is good grounds for re | | 学科分类 | SpringerBriefs in Religious Studies | | 图书封面 |  | | 影响因子 | This book takes a theoretical enterprise in Christian philosophy of religion and applies it to Buddhism, thus defending Buddhism and presenting it favorably in comparison. Chapters explore how the claims of both Christianity and Theravada Buddhism rest on people’s experiences, so the question as to which claimants to religious knowledge are right rests on the evidential value of those experiences. The book examines mysticism and ways to understand what goes on in religious experiences, helping us to understand whether it is good grounds for religious belief. The author argues that religious language in both Christian and Buddhist traditions is intelligible as factual discourse, and so reports of mystical experience are true or false. The book contends that those experiences can be fruitfully thought of as perceptual in kind and that they are therefore good prima facie grounds for religious belief, in the absence of defeating conditions. The work goes on to explore Christian and Buddhist testimony and how the likelihood of self-deception, self-delusion, imaginative elaboration and the like constitutes a defeating condition. It is shown that this defeater has less scope for ope | | Pindex | Book 2015 |
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