Steps toward a Sociology of Religious Experience: The Theories of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Alfred Schutz

Neitz, Mary Jo; Spickard, James V.

doi:10.2307/3711338

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“…The specific differences between flow, finite provinces of meaning and religious experiences are interestingly addressed by Spickard and Neitz (1990) and also by Bloch (2000).…”

Section: The Spiritual Dimensionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Religious Diversity in European Prisons

Becci¹,

Roy²

2015

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“…The specific differences between flow, finite provinces of meaning and religious experiences are interestingly addressed by Spickard and Neitz (1990) and also by Bloch (2000).…”

Section: The Spiritual Dimensionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Religious Diversity in European Prisons

Becci¹,

Roy²

2015

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“…What is this rival explanation? A long phenomenological tradition has argued that religious belief originates not in attempts to control the world and garner positive payoffs but rather in religious experience (James 1961;Otto 1958;Berger 1970Berger , 1979Eliade 1957;O'Dea 1966;Hay and Morisy 1978;Neitz and Spickard 1990;Schleiermacher 1994;Yamane and Polzer 1994;Greeley 1996;Yamane 1998).…”

Section: Epistemic Rationality and Religious Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Public opinion polls consistently show that between one-third and one-half of the U.S. public report some religious experience (Hay and Morisy 1978;Yamane and Polzer 1994). These experiences are not necessarily anything dramatic but often sensations or intimations of some transcendent presence (Berger 1979;Hay and Morisy 1978;Neitz and Spickard 1990). Eliade (1957), James (1961), Otto (1958), andSchleiermacher (1994) all document how religious belief is frequently motivated by such religious experience.…”

Section: Epistemic Rationality and Religious Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

Religion, Rationality, and Experience: A Response to the New Rational Choice Theory of Religion

Jerolmack

Porpora

2004

Sociological Theory

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This paper is a critical response to the newest version of the rational choice theory of religion (RCTR). In comparison with previous critiques, this paper takes aim at RCTR's foundational assumption of psychological egoism and argues that the thesis of psychological egoism is untenable. Without that thesis, the normative aspects of religious commitment cannot be reduced validly to instrumental reason. On neither conceptual nor empirical grounds therefore can religion or religious commitment be defined comprehensively in terms of exchange theory. With the failure of psychological egoism as a point of departure, the paper articulates an alternative theory of religion, one based on the epistemic rationality grounded in religious experience and religious emotion.

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“…Mary Jo Neitz and I have argued elsewhere (Neitz and Spickard, 1990) that this is not the case. We showed that an adequate sociological theory of religion must account for religious experiences, and that the 'overbelief' model, while attractive, involves certain assumptions that prevent it from filling the bill.…”

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confidence: 95%