the way to avoid this tendency is to take seriously what those personally involved say about themselves. Thus we will also have to pay heed to what the persons of a particular cultural sphere at a given point in time themselves understood under the headings of religion, faith, piety and the experience of the divine, where they recognised the working of numinous powers and where they saw a transcendence that went beyond purely innerworldly horizons. An exclusive concentration on this interior view
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