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Rudolf Otto’s analysis of religious experience represents one of the most influential developments in modern philosophy of religion, especially through his attempt to explain religion not merely as doctrine, morality, or rational belief, but as a unique type of human experience. His ideas are most fully expressed in his famous work The Idea of the Holy, where he argues that religion is grounded in what he calls the “numinous” experience. Otto’s work can be understood as both a continuation of earlier studies of religious experience and a critique of rationalistic and reductionist interpretations of religion. His ideas are powerful and original, yet they also raise significant philosophical problems. Otto’s central claim is that religious experience is fundamentally non-rational and irreducible. He introduces the concept of the numinous to describe a unique kind of experience characterized by mystery, awe, fascination, and dread. According to Otto, when a person encounters the numinous, they experience what he calls the “mysterium tremendum et fascinans,” meaning a mystery that is both terrifying and attractive. This experience produces feelings of creatureliness, or a sense of dependence before something infinitely greater. Otto insists that this is not simply fear, nor ordinary emotion, but a qualitatively different category of experience. He argues that attempts to reduce religion to ethics, psychology, or social structure ___ ______ _________ _____ ________ ________ _______ ______ __________ ________ ___ __________.
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