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  2. Religious experience - Wikipedia

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    A religious experience (sometimes known as a spiritual experience, sacred experience, mystical experience) is a subjective experience which is interpreted within a religious framework. [1] The concept originated in the 19th century, as a defense against the growing rationalism of Western society . [ 2 ]

  3. The Varieties of Religious Experience - Wikipedia

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    The lectures concerned the psychological study of individual private religious experiences and mysticism, and used a range of examples to identify commonalities in religious experiences across traditions. Soon after its publication, Varieties entered the Western canon of psychology and philosophy and has remained in print for over a century.

  4. Mysticism - Wikipedia

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    Critics of the term "religious experience" note that the notion of "religious experience" or "mystical experience" as marking insight into religious truth is a modern development, [141] and contemporary researchers of mysticism note that mystical experiences are shaped by the concepts "which the mystic brings to, and which shape, his experience ...

  5. Some say Masters week is a religious experience. Are ... - AOL

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    Take Saint Mark Methodist Church for example. Less than a mile from Magnolia Lane, the placard in front of Saint Mark read: “Welcome to Amen Corner.” The First Baptist Church of Augusta has ...

  6. Christian mysticism - Wikipedia

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    Wayne Proudfoot traces the roots of the notion of religious experience further back to the German theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834), who argued that religion is based on a feeling of the infinite. The notion of religious experience was used by Schleiermacher to defend religion against the growing scientific and secular critique.

  7. Scholarly approaches to mysticism - Wikipedia

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    A "religious experience" is a subjective experience which is interpreted within a religious framework. [32] The concept originated in the 19th century, as a defense against the growing rationalism of western society. [31] Wayne Proudfoot traces the roots of the notion of "religious experience" to the German theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher ...

  8. Argument from religious experience - Wikipedia

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    The 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 genuine experience or perception of a divine reality. Various reasons have been offered for and against accepting this contention.

  9. Numinous - Wikipedia

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    Otto's use of the term as referring to a characteristic of religious experience was influential among certain intellectuals of the subsequent generation. [8] [9] For example, "numinous" as understood by Otto was a frequently quoted concept in the writings of Carl Jung, [10] and C. S. Lewis. [11]