The Social Scientific Study of Christian Mysticism

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 577-591

  Hood, Ralph W ^a   Chen, Zhuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA   (United States)

Author keywords

Common core thesis from perennialism, the difference lying in core thesis; For Troeltsch, mysticism, inward appropriation of a direct inward experience; Ralph Hood, in systematizing Laski's procedure in constructing the REEM; Social scientific study of mysticism, a long history but a short past; Stopping with nothing more than 'varieties of religious experience' of James' method; The sense of God's presence, using scales to measure reports; The social scientific study of Christian mysticism; Troeltsch on Church, and mysticism, Troeltsch's itself a modification of Weber's; Two contemporary approaches assessing mysticism

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EID: 84886506713     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118232736.ch38     Document Type: Chapter

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