Religious Experience
Implications for What Is Real
Seiten
2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-42371-7 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-42371-7 (ISBN)
This book examines religious, spiritual, and mystical experiences, assessing in what ways these experiences seemingly implicate a spiritual order. The scope of religious experience is surveyed and different kinds of evidence are considered that might give rise to a belief in spiritual phenomena such as spirits and an afterlife.
In this book, Phillip Wiebe examines religious, spiritual, and mystical experiences, assessing how these experiences appear to implicate a spiritual order. Despite the current prevalence of naturalism and atheism, he argues that experiences purporting to have a religious or spiritual significance deserve close empirical investigation. Wiebe surveys the broad scope of religious experience and considers different types of evidence that might give rise to a belief in phenomena such as spirits, paranormal events, God, and an afterlife. He demonstrates that there are different explanations and interpretations of religious experiences, both because they are typically personal accounts, and they suggest a reality that is often unobservable. Wiebe also addresses how to evaluate evidence for theories that postulate unobservables in general, and a Theory of Spirits in particular. Calling for more rigorous investigation of these phenomena, Wiebe frames the study of religious experience among other accepted social sciences that seek to understand religion.
In this book, Phillip Wiebe examines religious, spiritual, and mystical experiences, assessing how these experiences appear to implicate a spiritual order. Despite the current prevalence of naturalism and atheism, he argues that experiences purporting to have a religious or spiritual significance deserve close empirical investigation. Wiebe surveys the broad scope of religious experience and considers different types of evidence that might give rise to a belief in phenomena such as spirits, paranormal events, God, and an afterlife. He demonstrates that there are different explanations and interpretations of religious experiences, both because they are typically personal accounts, and they suggest a reality that is often unobservable. Wiebe also addresses how to evaluate evidence for theories that postulate unobservables in general, and a Theory of Spirits in particular. Calling for more rigorous investigation of these phenomena, Wiebe frames the study of religious experience among other accepted social sciences that seek to understand religion.
Phillip H. Wiebe (1945-2018) was Professor of Philosophy and former Dean of Arts and Religious Studies at Trinity Western University, Canada. He was the author of Visions and Appearances of Jesus (2014), God and Other Spirits (2004), and Intuitive Knowing as Spiritual Experience (2015).
1. The scope of 'religious experience'; 2. The general theory of spirits; 3. Testability and evidence; 4. Phenomenological evidence; 5. Evidence for the world of spirits.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.06.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie |
| ISBN-10 | 1-108-42371-X / 110842371X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-42371-7 / 9781108423717 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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