A Comparative Doxastic-Practice Epistemology of Religious Experience

• Main Author: Webb, Mark Owen (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Religious Studies ; 2
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Religion.; Religion > Philosophy.; Philosophy, Asian.; Philosophy of Religion.; Religious Studies, general.; Non-Western Philosophy.

This book takes a theoretical enterprise in Christian philosophy of religion and applies it to Buddhism, thus defending Buddhism and presenting it favorably in comparison. Chapters explore how the claims of both Christianity and Theravada Buddhism rest on people’s experiences, so the question as to...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: The Diversity Problem
• Chapter 2: The Cognitivity of Religious Language
• Chapter 3: Religious Experience as Perceptual
• Chapter 4: The Justificatory Force of Religious Experience
• Chapter 5: Buddhist Testimony and Christian Testimony.          .