A religious experience (sometimes known as a spiritual experience, sacred experience, mystical experience) is a subjective experience which is interpreted...

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is a book by Harvard University psychologist and philosopher William James. It comprises...

Non-ordinary experience refers to rare experiences that significantly differ from the experience in the ordinary waking state, like religious experiences, out-of-body...

The Religious Experience Research Centre was founded by the distinguished marine biologist Professor Alister Hardy FRS in 1969 as The Religious Experience...

argument from religious experience is an argument for the existence of God. It holds that the best explanation for religious experiences is that they constitute...

definition has been applied to a wide range of religious traditions and practices, valuing "mystical experience" as a key element of mysticism. Since the 1960s...

is referred to as wajd. The adjective "religious" means that the experience occurs in connection with religious activities or is interpreted in the context...

and religious beliefs about an afterlife include descriptions similar to NDEs. The equivalent French term expérience de mort imminente ("experience of...

Religious Experience is a 1985 book by Wayne Proudfoot, published by University of California Press. It received the American Academy of Religion Award...

lectures with the intent of informing people of the diversity of religious experience: these lectures funded researchers such as William James, D. T. Suzuki...

Religious Experience Reconsidered (2009) is a book by Ann Taves on the study of religious experience. She proposes a new approach, which takes into account...

religions focus on the subjective experience of the religious individual, while others consider the activities of the religious community to be most important...

priesthood of all believers. This personal religious experience of Christ was acquired by direct experience and by reading and studying the Bible. Friends...

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spread to other religious traditions and broadened to refer to a wider range of experiences, including a range of esoteric and religious traditions. Modern...

philosophy; and The Varieties of Religious Experience, an investigation of different forms of religious experience, including theories on mind-cure....

drug that causes one to become inspired or to experience feelings of inspiration, often in a religious or "spiritual" manner. Ruck et al. argued that...

Meanwhile, religious experience goes on experiencing, so that by the time I get my dogma stated so that I can think about it, the religious experience becomes...

linked to William James' definition of religious experience, which he defines as the "feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude...

psychiatrists because of the similarities between religious experiences and psychotic episodes. Religious experiences often involve reports of auditory and/or...

emphasize common themes in religious experiences and mystical traditions across time and cultures; others argue that religious traditions share a single...

explain religious experience and behaviour in neuroscientific terms. It is the study of correlations of neural phenomena with subjective experiences of spirituality...

A new religious movement (NRM), also known as alternative spirituality or a new religion, is a religious or spiritual group that has modern origins and...

of religious experience can be traced back to William James, who first used the term "religious experience" in his book, The Varieties of Religious Experience...

belief that some alcoholics may recover if they have a 'spiritual or religious experience' indirectly influenced the later founding of Alcoholics Anonymous...

the varieties of religious experience, the interplay between science and religion, the nature and scope of good and evil, and religious treatments of birth...

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sensory experience and that claims about supernatural events are not supported by such experience. The argument from the problem of religious experience This...

by the religious studies scholar Daniel Merkur as "an imageless experience in which there is no sense of personal identity. It is the experience that remains...

major projects: systematic description, especially of religious contents, attitudes, experiences, and expressions explanation of the origins of religion...