The Secular Search for Religious Experience
“Our culture is now struggling to escape both nihilism and cynicism. … To do so, however, we will require a new type of religious sensibility. That sensibility must contribute to the search for style and vision. It must allow us to combine critical awareness and religious immediacy, sophistication a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
1968
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Theology today
Year: 1968, Volume: 25, Issue: 3, Pages: 320-332 |
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| Summary: | “Our culture is now struggling to escape both nihilism and cynicism. … To do so, however, we will require a new type of religious sensibility. That sensibility must contribute to the search for style and vision. It must allow us to combine critical awareness and religious immediacy, sophistication and ecstasy. … The new religious sensibility I refer to is the comic elan, the spirit of festivity and fantasy which one finds at the creative edges of the churches and in the religious underground.” |
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| ISSN: | 2044-2556 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology today
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/004057366802500306 |