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The Varieties of Religious Experience

2003
‘By their fruits ye shall know them, not by their roots.’ The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) is William James’s classic survey of religious belief in its most personal, and often its most heterodox, aspects. Asking questions such as how we define evil to ourselves, the difference between a healthy and a divided mind, the value of saintly ...
W. James
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Religious experience as an aim of religious education [PDF]

open access: possibleBritish Journal of Religious Education, 2013
This article presents a model for religious education based on three central elements. First, it is argued that religious experience, or direct experience of the Divine, is an essential part of a full religious life, that religious experience is based in, enabled by and examined against, the body of knowledge in a given religion, and that religious ...
D. Court
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Religious Experience

Our Experience of God, 2018
Hywel Lewis
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Religious Experience

Spiritual Sensations, 2021
This Element looks at religious experience and the role it has played in philosophy of religion. It critically explores the history of the intertwined discourses on mysticism and religious experience, before turning to a few specific discussions within ...
Amber L. Griffioen
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Sensing the Sacred: Religious Experience, Somatic Inversions, and the Religious Education of Attention

Sociology of religion, 2021
While previous work has focused largely on discourse, contemporary sociological research has started to examine how the embodied, sensory dimensions of religious practice matter in the construction of religious experience.
Daniel Winchester, Michal Pagis
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The Cognitive Neuroscience of Religious Experience

, 2022
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Religious Experience, now updated and expanded in a new edition, updates key topics covered in the first edition including: decentering and self-transformation, supernatural agent cognitions, mystical states, religious ...
P. McNamara
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Religious Experience

Eighteen Takes on God, 2019
Rudolf Otto made an influential study of the non-rational element in religion, arguing that religious awe is a human universal. But he claimed that its higher forms are found in the book of Job and in Christianity, Kierkegaard’s notion of subjective ...
L. Stevenson
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