The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience

Table of Contents

Part I. Characterizing Religious Experience: Interdisciplinary Approaches:
1. Psychology of religion approaches to the study of religious experience Ann Tayes
2. Philosophy of religion approaches to the study of religious experience Phillip H. Wiebe
3. Theology, religious diversity, and religious experience Gwen Griffith-Dickson
Part II. Religious Experience in Traditional Monotheism:
4. Illumined by meaning: religious experience in classical Judaism Howard Wettstein
5. Religious experience in early Christianity James D. G. Dunn
6. Religious experience in traditional Islam William Chittick
Part III. Religious Experience Outside Traditional Monotheism:
7. Religious experience in ancient Confucianism and Daoism Xinzhong Yao
8. Religious experience in Buddhism David Burton
9. Ramanuja's eleventh century Hindu theology of religious experience: an informative, performative, transformative discourse Francis X. Clooney
Part IV. Prominent Themes and Challenges:
10. Exploring the nature of mystical experience Steven T. Katz
11. Miraculous and extraordinary events as religious experience Fiona Bowie
12. Evil, Suffering, and Religious Experience Michael L. Peterson
13. Naturalism and religious experience William B. Drees
14. Meaning and social value in religious experience Mark Owen Webb.

Look Inside

• Table of Contents (43 KB)
• Front Matter (111 KB)
• Marketing Excerpt (97 KB)
• Copyright Information Page (45 KB)
• Index (72 KB)