The Multiple Realities of Paul’s Mystical Experience: A Phenomenological Perspective in the Anthropology of Religion

International Political Anthropology 16 (2):127-143 (2023)
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Abstract

This article is a study on Paul’s mystical experiences using an interpretive framework that relies on multiple grounds: Alfred Schutz’s phenomenology of the “multiple realities” applied to the problem of religion, political anthropology and general scholarship on Paul. The aim of this study is also multiple: I seek to draw an interpretive insight into those mystical experiences that have been traditionally attributed to Paul by using a hermeneutic lens provided by Schutzian phenomenology, to clarify this hermeneutic method as such and explore its interpretive potential for the phenomenology of religion in general, and to interpret the results of this analysis from the reflexive-historical perspective of political anthropology.

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Marius Ion Benta
Romanian Academy, George Baritiu History Institute

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