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标题：Diversity and Interpretation. Toward a Pluralist Realist Description of Religious Experience
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作者：Carlos Miguel Gómez Rincón
期刊名称：Religions
电子版ISSN：2077-1444
出版年度：2021
卷号：12
期号：10
页码：848
DOI：10.3390/rel12100848
语种：English
出版社：MDPI Publishing
摘要：This paper attempts to offer a pluralist realist account of the diversity of religious experience. In the first part, I show that an influential trend in contemporary philosophy of religious experience and religious pluralism is based on the mediational image of knowledge and a problematic notion of interpretation, which generates irresoluble problems. I then attempt a redescription based on an extension of Heidegger’s theory of understanding as pre-theorical engagement with the world, which allows for the conciliation of the diversity of religious experience with its claimed epistemic force. To develop this argument, finally, I present the experience of diversity proper of the contemporary world as a type of spiritual experience in which the traits of a pre-theoretical religious understanding can be found. As a result, the paper suggests a move from epistemology to spirituality for a better understanding of religious experience.