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Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Experience or Expression? A Puzzling Oversight /Thomas Hardtke , Ulrich Schmiedel and Tobias Tan -- 1 How to do Transcendence with Words? The Problem of Articulation in Religious Experience /Jörg Lauster -- 2 Modern Trials and Tests of ‘Experience’: Plastic Commonplace and Managed Exception /Yvonne Sherwood -- 3 Fiercely Proselytizing and Feverishly Protective: Reading John’s Revelation with Jacques Derrida /Hannah M. Strømmen -- 4 Religious Experience without Belief? Toward an Imaginative Account of Religious Engagement /Amber L. Griffioen -- 5 “Is that You?” Hearing God’s Voice in the Words of a Stranger (Judges 6:11–24) /Catherine Lewis-Smith -- 6 Living with Invisibility: Emotion, Mind, and Transcendence /Graham Ward -- 7 Navid Kermani’s Poetic Hermeneutics of Religious Experiences /Johannes Kleine -- 8 The Complexity of Hermeneutical Experience: Transcendence and Transformation /Werner G. Jeanrond -- 9 “Mediated Immediacy”: Karl Rahner and Edward Schillebeeckx on the Non-Reflective Element of Experience /Marijn de Jong -- 10 Supra-Religious? The Concept of Transcendental Experience and the (In-)Accessibility of the Absolute /Knut Wenzel -- 11 The Trouble with Trust in the Transcendent: Ernst Troeltsch’s Reception of William James /Ulrich Schmiedel -- 12 The Corporeality of Religious Experience: Embodied Cognition in Religious Practices /Tobias Tan -- 13 Religious Experience in Fourteenth-Century Mystical Writing: The Revelations of Elsbeth von Oye /Johannes M. Depnering -- 14 Speaking of God: Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Paradox of Religious Experience /Brian Klug -- Conclusion: Experience or Expression? Preserving the Puzzle /Thomas Hardtke , Ulrich Schmiedel and Tobias Tan -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
Religious Experience Revisited explores a dilemma which has haunted the study of religion since William James. Is religion rooted in experiences? Is religion rooted in expressions? How are experiences and expressions related? The contributors to this international and interdisciplinary compilation explore the possibilities and the impossibilities of a hermeneutics of religion. Combining theology and philosophy with biblical, cultural, historical and literary studies, they examine how religious experiences and religious expressions have been entangled in the past and in the present. These entanglements call for interdisciplinary conversations in which those who study experiences and those who study expressions can learn from each other in order to carve out important and instructive spaces for the study of religion