Mystical Experience and Interpretation: The Problem of Difference and Unity in the Essentialist and Constructivist Theories of the Twentieth Century

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https://doi.org/10.29357/2521-179X.2018.21.16

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essentialism, constructivism, interpretation, set, interpretative system, "empirical" method, context, "mystical experience".

Abstract

 The article raises the question of the "polemical semantic meaning" of the term "mysticism" and the problems associated with modern acute methodological discussions about the "mystical" as a subject of religious research within the framework of two epistemological paradigms - "essentialist" and "constructivist".

 

 

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Anna RUDNYTSKA

 



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RUDNYTSKA, Anna. 2018. “Mystical Experience and Interpretation: The Problem of Difference and Unity in the Essentialist and Constructivist Theories of the Twentieth Century”. Theological Reflections: Eastern European Journal of Theology, no. 21 (August):212-18. https://doi.org/10.29357/2521-179X.2018.21.16.

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No. 21 (2018): THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS: Euro-Asian Journal of Theology

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