Robert Brandom, for example, does so as an analytic and pragmatist philosopher and Iris Marion Young does so while drawing from Continental philosophical traditions of phenome- nology and poststructuralism. 27 Indeed, a comprehensive proposal for a viable notion of religious experience, which is more than I will attempt in this essay, could very well draw from people like Brandom and Young. In the meantime, I want to suggest that a major factor in the decline of religious experience, above and beyond the turns to language and practice, is the reluctance of scholars o