What Counts as Religious Experience? The Inventory of Nonordinary Experiences as a Tool for Analysis across Cultures

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<p>When operationalizing ‘religiosity’ or ‘spirituality’ or ‘religious experience’ as measurable constructs, researchers tacitly treat them as if they were cross-culturally stable ‘things’ rather than investigating the way culturally-laden concepts, such as ‘religious’ or ‘spiritual,’ are used to interpret or appraise contested aspects of human life within and across cultures. To illustrate the distinction, we con...

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af20f22e-bfe8-534f-a9a7-4155928629c2

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10.31234/osf.io/ux28d