Website Faculty page Name Ann Taves | Spouse Raymond Paloutzian Alma mater Pomona College | |
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Occupation Author and professor of Religion Employer University of California, Santa Barbara Books Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building-Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada | ||
Interview with ann taves
Ann Taves is a professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a former President of the American Academy of Religion (2010). She holds the chair of Catholic Studies at the university. 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.
Contents
- Interview with ann taves
- Presidential address ann taves sd
- Biography
- Works
- Fits Trances and Visions
- References
Presidential address ann taves sd
Biography
Taves was born in 1952. Taves received her bachelor's degree from Pomona College on religion in June 1974. She went on to receive her master's and doctorate from the University of Chicago Divinity School in June 1979 and December 1983 respectively.
Taves was married to Raymond Paloutzian on 29 December 2007, in Santa Barbara.
In 2013, Taves received a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of religion.
Works
Fits, Trances, and Visions
Fits, Trances, and Visions (1999) charts the experience of Anglo-American Protestants and those who left the Protestant movement beginning with the transatlantic awakening in the early 18th century and ending with the rise of the psychology of religion and the birth of Pentecostalism in the early 20th century.
It charts the synonymic language of trance in the American Christian traditions: power or presence or indwelling of God, or Christ, or the Spirit, or spirits. Typical expressions include "the indwelling of the Spirit" (Jonathan Edwards), "the witness of the Spirit" (John Wesley), "the power of God" (early American Methodists), being "filled with the Spirit of the Lord" (early Adventists; see charismatic Adventism), "communing with spirits" (Spiritualists), "the Christ within" (New Thought), "streams of holy fire and power" (Methodist holiness), "a religion of the Spirit and Power" (the Emmanuel Movement), and "the baptism of the Holy Spirit" (early Pentecostals).
It focuses on a class of seemingly involuntary acts alternately explained in religious and secular terminology. These involuntary experiences include uncontrolled bodily movements (fits, bodily exercises, falling as dead, catalepsy, convulsions); spontaneous vocalizations (crying out, shouting, speaking in tongues); unusual sensory experiences (trances, visions, voices, clairvoyance, out-of-body experiences); and alterations of consciousness and/or memory (dreams, somnium, somnambulism, mesmeric trance, mediumistic trance, hypnotism, possession, alternating personality).