Why philosophy and history matter: A conversation with Ann Taves

Abstract

The article picks up some ideas that Ann Taves presents in her book Religious Experience Reconsidered, and looks at possible conversations that are not fleshed out in detail in Taves' book. In particular, it is argued that the disciplinary confrontation with philosophy and with historiography is of crucial importance if the disciplines of cognitive science and psychology of religion want to become in the future what they pretend to be nowda serious alternative and complement to the study of religion as we know it from other contexts, such as cultural studies and historiography

Keywords:

• Ann Taves
• Religious experience
• Cognitive science of religion
• Psychology of religion
• Philosophy of religion
• Historiography