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عنوان مقاله [English]
“Religious experience”, in its broadest sense, is either an inner
experience or an objective event that has religious meaning for the
subject. In philosophy of religion, however, a narrower meaning of the
term is at issue: an experience taken by the subject as experiential
awareness of God; in which one directly perceives the presence of God
(or a divine being). Religious empiricism is an approach which tries to
justify or reconstruct religious beliefs on the ground of “religious
experience”. In this paper, after a short review on the historical
background of this attitude, I will propose two different meanings for
religious empiricism. Then, considering Schleiermacher's and James's
views, I will discuss religious empiricism in its contemporary and
perhaps most important formulation developed by Swinburne and
Alston. Religious empiricism could be understood as a religious
reaction to the criticism of religion in the modern time. It tries to stay
and act within the framework of modern philosophy that emphasizes on
the significance of experience. In their intellectual efforts, the
advocates of this stream have expanded the boundaries of the notion of
experience. On the other hand, “religious experience” has a different
meaning and function for each of aforementioned philosophers. So, to
evaluate this approach we need to understand these differences in
depth.
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