Touching the Transcendent: Rethinking Religious Experience in the Sociological Study of Religion

Everyday Religion: Observing Modern Religious Lives

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Bender, Courtney J ^a  

^a Department of Religion Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Contemporary spirituality; Individual; Out of body experience; Sociology of religion; Theologies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929267079     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195305418.003.0012     Document Type: Chapter

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