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The Cultural Kindling of Spiritual Experiences |
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Cassaniti, Julia L. (著)
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Luhrmann, Tanya Marie (著)
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| Source |
Current Anthropology
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| Volume | v.55 n.S10 Special Issue |
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| Date | 2014.12 |
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| Pages | S333 - S343 |
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| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
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http://www.journals.uchicago.edu
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| Location | Chicago, IL, US [芝加哥, 伊利諾伊州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | 1. Special Issue: The Anthropology of Christianity: Unity, Diversity, New Directions.
2. Julia L. Cassaniti
Washington State University, USA.
3. Tanya Marie Luhrmann
Stanford University, USA. |
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| Abstract | In this paper we suggest that it is important for the anthropology of Christianity and the anthropology of religion more generally to develop a comparative phenomenology of spiritual experience. Our method is to distinguish between a named phenomenon without fixed mental or bodily events (phenomena that have specific local terms but are recognized by individuals by a broad and almost indiscriminate range of physical events); bodily affordances (events of the body that happen in social settings but are only identified as religious in those social settings when they afford, or make available, an interpretation that makes sense in that setting); and striking anomalous events. We demonstrate that local cultural practices shift the pattern of spiritual experiences, even those such as sleep paralysis and out-of-body experiences that might be imagined in some ways as culture free, but that the more the spiritual experience is constrained by a specific physiology, the more the frequency of the event will be constrained by an individual’s vulnerability to those experiences. We will call this the “cultural kindling” of spiritual experience. |
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| Table of contents | What We Did: Our Method S335
What We Found: Our Results S336
Named Phenomena without Fixed Mental or Bodily Events: Demons S337
Bodily Affordances: Cataplexy, Adrenaline Surge, Emotional Surge S338
Striking Anomalous Events: Sleep Paralysis S339
Discussion: Cultural Kindling S340
Acknowledgments S342
References Cited S342 |
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| ISSN | 00113204 (P); 15375382 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.1086/677881 |
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| Created date | 2024.11.18 |
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| Modified date | 2024.11.19 |
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