Mysticism and Religious Experience
Mysticism and Religious Experience
This chapter discusses (1) wide and narrow definitions of “mystical experience” and of “religious experience”; (2) categories and attributes of mystical experience; (3) perennialism vs. constructivism; (4) on the possibility of experiencing God; (5) epistemology: The doxastic practice approach and the argument from perception; (6) criticisms of the doxastic practice approach and the argument from perception; (7) religious diversity; (8) naturalistic explanations; and (9) mysticism, religious experience, and gender.
Keywords: argument from perception, constructivism, doxastic practice approach, gender, mystical experience, naturalistic explanations, perennialism, religious diversity, religious experience
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