Renewing the senses: conversion experience and the phenomenology of the spiritual life [Book Review]
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 72 (3):211-226 (2012)
Abstract
In his discussion of conversion experience, in The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James draws attention to a variety of experience which has not been much investigated in the philosophy of religion literature, but which seems to be of some importance religiously—namely, an experience which consists in a re-vivification of the sensory world as a whole. In this paper, I develop four accounts of the nature of this kind of experience, and I show how the experience can inform our conception of the spiritual life, considered as a world-directed mode of experience and practice.Author's Profile
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