Methods
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Methodologial Issses
Bender [1] makes the important point that self-reports and interviews of people are often tainted by attempts to "convince a listener...of...the validity of religious experiences." First person accounts are not naive, in other words, but embedded in a social/political mileux.
Footnotes
- ↑ Bender, Courtney. The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. p. 68