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Experience, Knowledge and Understanding1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Joseph M. Kitagawa
Affiliation:
Dean of the Divinity School, The University of Chicago

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Anyone teaching in theological schools or university departments of religion in the West should be struck by two related factors which seem to influence the attitude and thinking, of today's students. The first is the preoccupation with ‘experience’, while the second is the openness toward Eastern religious insights as well as their meditation techniques. In this paper, the writer intends to reflect on these two factors both as the causes and the effects of the significant change that has taken place in Western man's world of meaning in our time.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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