Encounters with ultimacy? : autobiographical and critical perspectives in the academic study of religion

• Main Author: Hedges, Paul
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Mysticism; Religious Experience; Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107060; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49023
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

“Ultimacy,” it is argued, is not an area that academic studies in theology nor the study of religion can properly investigate; nevertheless, it is also illegitimate to argue therefore that claims to it are simply linguistic power plays. Using an autobiographical methodology, the author explores how...