Dissolving the Binary between Words and Experience: Pentecostal Theology, Worship, Structures, and Traditions Open Access

Abstract

This thesis explores the overcorrection that scholars have made in their turn toward religious experience as the lens to analyze the essence of religion. This thesis argues that discursive approaches through theology, institutions, and traditions are not only not antithetical to bodily experience, but also that these extra-subjective factors can actually function as magnifiers of the subjective religious experience. This can especially be seen through the theology, musical worship, and institutional structures found within the mystical tradition of Pentecostalism

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Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………….1

Chapter 1…………………………………………………………………………………………19

Chapter 2…………………………………………………………………………………………36

Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………….53

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School	Emory College
Department	Religion
Degree	B.A.
Submission	Honors Thesis
Language	English
Research Field	Music Religion, General Religion, History of
Keyword	Pentecostalism Phenomenological Anthropologist Hillsong music Vineyard Church worship music Pentecostal Pentecostal worship Religion Worship Pentecostal Theology Theology Hillsong Church Hillsong Worship
Committee Chair / Thesis Advisor	Premawardhana, Devaka, Emory University
Committee Members	Reinders, Eric, Emory University Seeman, Don, Emory University

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