Religious Experience and Its Transformational Power

Download or read book Religious Experience and Its Transformational Power written by Sabrina Müller and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author approaches the phenomenon 'religious experience' through a qualitative study in which young, urban people from Europe and the USA are empirically examined. It becomes clear that individuals themselves are constructive agents of experience and theology. Religious experience manifests itself as a transformative perspective of hope in the lives of young people. The study ends with a plea for a theology from below, based on liberation theology and feminist theories, in which contextual perspectives are central to practical theological theorising.