rd104 Religious Experience with guest Tanya Luhrmann

vor 13 Jahren

the cost of religeous tax-exemption, Luhrman interview, Swinburne's argument from religeous experience

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Wissenschaft , Gesellschaft , Sozialwissenschaften , Philosophie , Religion , Andere Religion , Gesellschaft & Kultur , Religion & Spiritualität , Wissenschaft & Medizin

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vor 13 Jahren

For many religious believers the most compelling evidence for
theism is their own personal experience of God's presence.
Christians in the rapidly growing charismatic "renewalist" movement
do not just talk to God. They claim to actually hear God talking
back. Are these powerful religious experiences evidence that God
really exists or are they the result of mental illness?
Anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann, author of When God Talks Back,
offers another explanation: such experiences arise naturally when
spiritual communities learn to train and enhance their natural
capacity for imagination. She joins us on the show to talk about
what she observed while studying members of the renewalist Vineyard
Church. Also in this episode: just how much government revenue is
lost due to religious tax exemptions and direct subsides to
churches? The answer will shock you. Plus, a counter-apologetics on
Richard Swinburne's argument from religious experience and a new
pollyatheism.