Religious experience: search for definition

Authors

  • Mauro Martins Amatuzzi PUC-CAMPINAS

Keywords:

religious experience, religion, magic, faith

Abstract

Theoretical study that is the first part of a more encompassing research aiming to describe
phenomenologicaly the religious experience basing on personal reports. Religious experience, in the real sense of the word, is something not lived as a delusive defense for the characteristic fragmentation of the experience in the post-modern era, but presents itseIf
as a immediate awareness of a relationship with something that is conceived as absolutely
transcendent that, however, is not directly perceived in itself. This transcendency is the hidden side of a relationship that, however, is experienced as a relationship in the everyday life. The extreme nature of this experience makes possible changes in the person
world meanings. It must also to be understood as a process in which its own comprehension becomes more and more appropriate to the person who experiences it.

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Published

1998-12-31

How to Cite

Amatuzzi, M. M. . (1998). Religious experience: search for definition. Psychological Studies, 15(1). Retrieved from https://periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br/estpsi/article/view/5816