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The Justification of Sensory Experience and Religious Experience in Alston's Intellectual System; Controversies and Responses [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2023
Introduction, Alston by distinguishing two explanatory views of sensory experience; that means, the direct and indirect justification point of view is based on the belief that sensory experience directly justifies belongings; That is, in our sensory ...
Masoumeh Mahmoudi, Abdollah Salavati
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Metaphor, Religious Language, and Religious Experience [PDF]

Sophia, 2007
Is it possible to talk about God without either misrepresentation or failing to assert anything of significance? The article begins by reviewing how, in attempting to answer this question, traditional theories of religious language have failed to sidestep both potential pitfalls adequately.
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An Approach to The Understanding of "Religious Experiences"

Kanz Philosophia: A Journal for Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism, 2011
In the old days, theology was almost a purely internal religious matter. Ilmu Kalam or Islamic Theology – although this term does not fully signify the meaning of Ilmu Kalam; has been focusing mainly on “internal religious issues” namely; on God and His ...
Muhammad Bagir
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Studying Mystic Waaqeah and Its Symbolism as a Religious Experience [PDF]

ادبیات عرفانی, 2023
The term “waaqeah” in Islamic mysticism refers to a state achieved through specific practices and conditions (such as seclusion, immersion in remembrance, and similar activities), through which the seeker attains a novel understanding and discovers an ...
Ehsan Pourabrisham
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The Universal Degrees (Marâtib), Manifestations (Mazâhir) and Divine Presences (Hadharât) of The Existence in Ibn Arabi’s School of Mysticism

Kanz Philosophia: A Journal for Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism, 2011
One of the most elemental discussions in ‘irfân nadzâri (theoretical mysticism), in the section where its adherents discuss ontology, is the debate surrounding the degrees of God’s manifestation.
Abulfazel Kiashemshaki
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Religious Experience and Yoga

Religions, 2019
Yoga practice provides access to religious experience, which has been defined by William James as “immediate luminousness, philosophical reasonableness, and moral helpfulness.„ In this paper the processes of Yoga will be summarized as found ...
Christopher Key Chapple
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Neurotheology : Brain-based Religious Experience

Kanz Philosophia: A Journal for Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism, 2011
Even though most men are occupied with gaining a livelihood and providing for their daily needs and show no concern for spiritual matters there lies within the nature of man an innate urge to seek the ultimate Real.
Jalaluddin Rakhmat
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Religious experience and sacred text

Acta Theologica, 2022
As Kees Waaijman has shown, biblical spirituality engages Holy Scripture in relation to human experience, always with a view toward personal transformation.
A. Holder
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Religious Experience and its Essentialism in William James and Ghazzali’s Views [PDF]

Comparative Theology, 2016
Religious experience is an approach to which Western thinkers are considered pioneers among whom Schleiermacher is the most prominent. "The essentialism of religious experience" is one of the several approaches that have been adopted in the case of ...
Ahmad Ebadi, Elham Al‌-Sadat Karimi Dooraki   +1 more
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Senseless Pain in the Phenomenology of Religious Experience

Open Theology, 2020
There are three models of pain in the phenomenology of religious experience. The first model suggests that pain is instrumental to attaining the desired religious experience.
Salim Emil
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