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Ann Taves

Author of Fits, Trances, and Visions

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About the Author

Ann Taves is professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her books include Religious Experience Reconsidered and Fits, Trances, and Visions: Experiencing Religion and Explaining Experience from Wesley to James (both Princeton).

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Works by Ann Taves

Fits, Trances, and Visions (1999) 77 copies

Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building-Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things (2009) 56 copies

The Household of Faith: Roman Catholic Devotions in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America (1986) 10 copies

Revelatory Events: Three Case Studies of the Emergence of New Spiritual Paths (2016) 10 copies

What Matters?: Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age (A Columbia / SSRC Book) (2012) — Editor — 4 copies

Associated Works

Religion and Domestic Violence in Early New England: The Memoirs of Abigail Abbot Bailey (1989) — Editor — 48 copies

The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies (2011) — Contributor, some editions — 35 copies

The Expanded Canon: Perspectives on Mormonism and Sacred Texts (2018) — Contributor — 12 copies

Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith's Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity (2020) — Contributor — 12 copies

Ellen Harmon White: American Prophet (2014) — Contributor — 11 copies, 1 review

To Be Learned is Good: Essays on Faith and Scholarship in Honor of Richard Lyman Bushman (2018) — Contributor — 9 copies

Journal of Mormon History - Volume 41, No. 4 (October 2015) (2015) — Contributor — 3 copies

BYU Studies Vol. 59 No. 2, 2020 (2020) — Contributor — 3 copies

Mormon Studies Review, Vol. 1 (2014) (2014) — Contributor — 2 copies

Mormon Studies Review, Vol. 3 (2016) (2016) — Contributor — 2 copies

Entering Religious Minds: The Social Study of Worldviews (2019) — Contributor — 2 copies

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Gender: female
Education: University of Chicago (MA, PhD)
Pomona College (BA)
Occupations: Professor of Religious Studies
Organizations: University of California, Santa Barbara

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Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Distinguished Book Award

Fits, Trances, and Visions (2010)

Fits, Trances, and Visions (Winner – Philosophy & Religion – 2000)

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Works: 5
Also by: 11
Members: 157
Popularity: #133,743
Rating: ½ 3.7

ISBNs: 15
Languages: 1

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