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Religion und Gefühl. Religionspsychologische Aspekte im Anschluss an William James

  • Birgit Weyel
Published/Copyright: August 14, 2009
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From the journal Volume 44 Issue 1

On the threshold of modernity, religion and feelings have entered into a close relationship in Protestantism. In Reden über die Religion (1799) Friedrich Schleiermacher defined religion as feelings, indicating an original form of experience. Religion is thereby an existential seizure by a supernatural revelation that is, nevertheless, individually determined. From a religious-psychological perspective, William James established in The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) that a close connection exists between religion and feelings. These can be described as religious feelings or as religion, whereby symbols which are defined in religious terms can be used for interpreting feelings and the individual acquires a frame of reference for interpreting.

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