Meeting God - An Anthropological Framework for a Particular Religious Experience
Meeting God - An Anthropological Framework for a Particular Religious Experience

Summary/Abstract: “What do you get when you combine an agnostic, an insomniac and a dyslexic? Someone who stays up all night, wondering if there’s a dog.” This riddle—Could it qualify as a joke? One wonders, indeed— portrays an intimate religious experience. Internal debates regarding the reality of God are not unheard of among those possessing a faithful temperament. Moreover, it often seems like the desire for a “Living God”1 is accompanied by a keen awareness of one’s faults and failures. Will I be worthy of the moment? Am I not too miserable to receive God’s mercy, or grace, or even judgment? If I believe, if I believe enough to wonder about it, is not my faith precisely ensconced in a lack of demonstration, in the absence of an answer?

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