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- PhD Religious Studies University of California, Santa Barbara
- Masters Religious Studies University of California, Santa Barbara
- Bachelors Religious Studies University of California, Santa Barbara
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ann Taves is Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a former president of the American Academy of Religion . From July 2005–December 2017, she held the Cordana Chair in Catholic Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Taves is especially known for her work Religious Experience Reconsidered , stressing the importance of the findings and theoretical foundations of cognitive science for modern religionists.
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- Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building-Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things (2009) (346)
- Fits, Trances, & Visions: Experiencing Religion and Explaining Experience from Wesley to James (1999) (174)
- Psychology, Meaning Making, and the Study of Worldviews: Beyond Religion and Non-Religion (2018) (87)
- The Household of Faith: Roman Catholic Devotions in Mid-Nineteenth Century America (1988) (48)
- What matters? : ethnographies of value in a not so secular age (2012) (47)
- Experience as event: event cognition and the study of (religious) experiences (2017) (41)
- Religious and Secular, “Spiritual” and “Physical” in Ghana (2012) (41)
- Revelatory Events: Three Case Studies of the Emergence of New Spiritual Paths (2016) (36)
- Mystical and Other Alterations in Sense of Self: An Expanded Framework for Studying Nonordinary Experiences (2019) (34)
- Reverse Engineering Complex Cultural Concepts: Identifying Building Blocks of “Religion” (2015) (33)
- 2010 Presidential Address: “Religion” in the Humanities and the Humanities in the University (2011) (31)
- No Field Is an Island: Fostering Collaboration between the Academic Study of Religion and the Sciences (2010) (27)
- Building Blocks of Sacralities: A New Basis for Comparison across Cultures and Religions (2013) (27)
- Ascription, attribution, and cognition in the study of experiences deemed religious (2008) (27)
- What is Nonreligion? On the Virtues of a Meaning Systems Framework for Studying Nonreligious and Religious Worldviews in the Context of Everyday Life (2018) (21)
- Religion and Domestic Violence in Early New England: The Memoirs of Abigail Abbot Bailey (1989) (20)
- Detachment and Engagement in the Study of "Lived Experience" (2003) (17)
- Religious Experience and the Divisible Self: William James (and Frederic Myers) as Theorist(s) of Religion (2003) (14)
- Experience as site of contested meaning and value: The attributional dog and its special tail (2010) (13)
- REREADING THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE IN TRANSATLANTIC PERSPECTIVE (2009) (12)
- From religious studies to worldview studies (2020) (11)
- Non-ordinary powers: charisma, special affordances and the study of religion (2013) (10)
- Special things as building blocks of religions (2011) (10)
- Knowing Through the Body: Dissociative Religious Experience in the African- and British-American Methodist Traditions (1993) (9)
- Introduction: Things of Value (2012) (9)
- Scientific Worldview Studies: A Programmatic Proposal (2018) (9)
- Context and Meaning: Roman Catholic Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America (1985) (7)
- Spiritual Purity and Sexual Shame: Religious Themes in the Writings of Harriet Jacobs (1987) (7)
- Mothers and Children and the Legacy of Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Christianity (1987) (7)
- Joseph Smith's First Vision: New Methods for the Analysis of Experience-Related Texts (2016) (7)
- Fits, Trances, and Visions (2020) (6)
- Hiding in Plain Sight : The Organizational Forms of “ Unorganized Religion ” (2013) (5)
- A tale of two congresses: the psychological study of psychical, occult, and religious phenomena, 1900-1909. (2014) (5)
- Survey Item Validation (2019) (5)
- Channeled Apparitions: On Visions that Morph and Categories that Slip (2009) (5)
- Explanation and the Study of Religion (2018) (5)
- Where (Fragmented) Selves Meet Cultures (2006) (5)
- "Magical thinking" and the Emergence of New Social Movements: Cognitive Aspects of Reformation Era Debates over Ritual Efficacy (2014) (4)
- What Counts as Religious Experience? The Inventory of Nonordinary Experiences as a Tool for Analysis across Cultures (2019) (4)
- History and the Claims of Revelation: Joseph Smith and the Materialization of the Golden Plates (2014) (4)
- Secular Humanitarianism and the Value of Life (2012) (4)
- Negotiating the Boundaries in Theological and Religious Studies " (4)
- Big Gods and other watcher mechanisms in the formation of large groups (2014) (4)
- 3. The Fragmentation of Consciousness and “The Varieties of Religious Experience” William James’s Contribution to a Theory of Religion (2004) (4)
- The Building Block Approach : An Overview (2020) (3)
- Binding Earth and Heaven: Patriarchal Blessings in the Prophetic Development of Early Mormonism. (2014) (3)
- BRIDGING SCIENCE AND RELIGION: “THE MORE” AND “THE LESS” IN WILLIAM JAMES AND OWEN FLANAGAN (2009) (3)
- Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion. Vol 2: Bibliography (1974) (3)
- Religions, meaning making, and basic needs (2011) (3)
- McNamara's cognitive model of self-transformation (2011) (3)
- What Do Religion Scholars Really Want? Scholarly Values in the Scientific Study of Religion (2020) (3)
- Homeschooling the Enchanted Child Ambivalent Attachments in the Domestic Southwest (2012) (2)
- The Power of the Paranormal (and Extraordinary) (2013) (2)
- Believing and social interactions: effects on bodily expressions and personal narratives (2022) (2)
- Parsing meaning and value in relation to experience (2014) (2)
- From Religious History to the Cultural History Of Religion (2003) (2)
- A Response to Martin and Wiebe (2012) (2)
- The Camp Meeting and the Paradoxes of Evangelical Protestant Ritual (2007) (2)
- A feature-based approach to the comparative study of "nonordinary" experiences. (2022) (2)
- The Household of Faith (1986) (2)
- The New Religious History@@@Devotion to the Holy Spirit in American Catholicism.@@@The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950.@@@The Household of Faith: Roman Catholic Devotions in Mid-Nineteenth-Century (1987) (1)
- Decadence and Catholicism . By Ellis Hanson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. xii + 403 pp. n.p. (1998) (1)
- Can people belong to more than one religion (2017) (1)
- Connecting events: experienced, narrated, and framed (2017) (1)
- Mind Matters Esalen’s Sursem Group and the Ethnography of Consciousness (2012) (1)
- Response to Russell T. McCutcheon's Review Essay: “Will Your Cognitive Anchor Hold in the Storms of Culture?” 78/4: 1182–1193 (2012) (1)
- Portrait: Ann Taves (2015) (1)
- Modeling Theories and Modeling Phenomena: A Humanist’s Initiation (2019) (1)
- Assessing Theories of Religion: A Forum on Thomas A. Tweed's Crossing and Dwelling: A Theory of Religion (2009) (1)
- Mormon Studies in the Academy: A Conversation between Ann Taves and Spencer Fluhman (2014) (1)
- Devotion to the Holy Spirit in American Catholicism . Edited by Joseph P. Chinnici, O.F.M. Sources in American Spirituality. New York: Paulist Press, 1985. x + 227 pp. $12.95. (1986) (1)
- Conquering Religious Contagions and Crowds Nineteenth-Century Psychologists and the Unfinished Subjugation of Superstition and Irrationality (2012) (1)
- Interior Disciplines and a Revitalized Phenomenology of Religion (2006) (1)
- Worldview Analysis as a Tool for Conflict Resolution (2022) (1)
- Comparing Nonordinary Experiences: Surveying, Validating, and Mapping Similarities and Differences in the US and India (2019) (1)
- Event Model Analysis (2021) (1)
- Phenomena, Mechanisms, and Levels of Analysis in the CSR (2022) (0)
- Anatomy of a Séance: a History of Spirit Communication in Central Canada By Stan McMullin (2006) (0)
- From a Materialist Ethic to the Spirit of Prehistory (2012) (0)
- Religion, Religious: Can Anti-Definitionalists Stay Tethered to the Study of Religion? (2021) (0)
- Visions of Religion: Experience, Meaning, and Power, by Stephen S. Bush, New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, xi + 259 pp., ISBN 978-0-19-938740-3, $78 (hardcover) (2017) (0)
- Catholic Studies and Religious Studies : Reflections on the Concept of Tradition (2009) (0)
- Armin W. Geertz and Jeppe Sinding Jensen (2014) (0)
- Perceiving the Problem of Disenchantment (2015) (0)
- Part 1. Making Meaning (2017) (0)
- Theology , Gender , and Individualism in America (2002) (0)
- The Computational Foundations of Religious Cognition: A Workshop Hosted by the International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion (IACSR) (2017) (0)
- What Counts as Religious Experience? Reappraising the RERC data from the UK and China (2019) (0)
- An Anonymous Fellowship (2018) (0)
- Past Minds: Studies in Cognitive Historiography, written by Luther H. Martin and Jesper Sørensen (2015) (0)
- Believing and Appraising in Context: Cognizing Experiences as Events (2022) (0)
- Part 2. Creating Paths (2017) (0)
- ANN TAVES From Weird Experiences to Revelatory Events (2015) (0)
- The Body of Faith: A Biological History of Religion in America. By Robert C. Fuller (2014) (0)
- Scholarly Values, Methods, and Evidence in the Academic Study of Religion (2022) (0)
- A Restored Church (2018) (0)
- Appendix. Discussion of Methods (2017) (0)
- This Far by Faith: Readings in African-American Women's Autobiography . Edited by Judith Weisenfeld and Richard Newman. New York: Routledge, 1996. 326 pp. (1997) (0)
- A Course in Miracles (2018) (0)
- Popular Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Germany . By Jonathan Sperber. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. xiv + 319 pp. $45.00. (1986) (0)
- Designing Research (2021) (0)
- M. Gail. Hamner, American Pragmatism: A Religious Genealogy. Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. viii+233 pp. $45.00 (cloth). (2004) (0)
- Sexual Orientation and Human Rights in American Religious Discourse. Edited by Saul M. Olyan and Martha C. Nussbaum. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xx + 268 pp. $29.95 cloth. (1999) (0)
- Worldview Studies : A Programmatic Proposal (2017) (0)
- Unsettled Minds: Psychology and the American Search for Spiritual Assurance, 1830–1940 (review) (2010) (0)
- Comments and Reflections (2020) (0)
- ASCETICISM OF THE MIND: FORMS OF ATTENTION AND SELF‐TRANSFORMATION IN LATE ANTIQUE MONASTICISM Inbar Graiver Toronto, Canada: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2018. ISBN: 978‐0888442130. $80.00 (hardcover) . (2019) (0)
- Brain—mind (2011) (0)
- Brian Rennie (2021) (0)
- Book Review:Miracles and the Modern Religious Imagination Robert Bruce Mullin (1998) (0)
- Robert Orsi, .Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. 256 pp. $26.95 (cloth). (2006) (0)
- America's Distinctive God (2003) (0)
- California's Spiritual Frontiers: Religious Alternatives in Anglo-Protestantism, 1850-1910. Sandra Sizer Frankiel (1990) (0)
- Introduction (2011) (0)
- Event cognition (not ecumenical naturalism) integrates individual and cultural differences (2021) (0)
- Book reviews (2009) (0)
- The role of experience in making Gods and spirits real (2023) (0)
- Timothy Fitzgerald, ed., Religion and the Secular: Historical and Colonial Formations. London: Equinox, 2007, xii +275 pp., $137 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1845532666, $40 (paperback), ISBN: 978 84553 267 3. (2009) (0)
- From Methodists to Mormons: Reflections on Describing and Explaining Religious Worldviews (2019) (0)
- Review: The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern (2005) (0)
- Book Review:Prophetic Sons and Daughters: Female Preaching and Popular Religion in Industrial England Deborah M. Valenze (1988) (0)
- Youval Rotman. Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium: The Ambiguity of Religious Experience. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. 256 pp., $39.95, ISBN 978674057616.: BOOK REVIEWS (2018) (0)
- To Our Critics (2018) (0)
- Religious Experience or Psychopathology? A Feature-Based Approach to the Comparative Study of “Nonordinary” Experiences (2021) (0)
- Mapping nonordinary experiences across cultures in the U.S. and India (2021) (0)
- Psychology of Religion Approaches to the Study of Religious Experience (2019) (0)
- List of Illustrations and Tables (2009) (0)
- Refiner’s Fire and the Yates Thesis: Hermeticism, Esotericism, and the History of Christianity (2015) (0)
- (Revelatory) events: a response to commentators (2019) (0)
- Absence (2006) (0)
- John Wigger. American Saint: Francis Asbury and the Methodists. New York: Oxford University Press. 2009. Pp. xi, 543. $39.95 (2010) (0)
- Illustrations and Tables (2017) (0)
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