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...

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...

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

focuses on in meditation. 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...

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...

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

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

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

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....

behind religious experience. Researchers in this field study correlations of the biological neural phenomena, in addition to subjective experiences of spirituality...

which is subjective and cultural. Individuals experiencing religious delusions are preoccupied with religious subjects that are not within the expected beliefs...

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...

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

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

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

Reasoning Intuitive Apprehension Psychic Experience Aesthetic Experience Ethical Experience Religious Experience For Radhakrishnan, theology and creeds...

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...

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

A new religious movement (NRM), also known as a new religion, is a religious or spiritual group that has modern origins and is peripheral to its society's...

controlling religious community can induce further anxiety. As individuals identify the harm they are experiencing in authoritarian religious settings,...

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

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

states that mystical experiences are mediated by pre-existing frames of reference, while the attribution approach focuses on the (religious) meaning that is...

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

William James. His 1902 Gifford lectures and book The Varieties of Religious Experience examined religion from a psychological-philosophical perspective...

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

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...