Philosophy of Religion Mind Mapping Project


Religious Experience


Attachments:
Religious Experience Resources
Greg Moses' Bibliography
Religious Experience Bibliography
Religious Experience Discussion Forum
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1: What is it?

Attachments:
Wikipedia on Religious Experience

1.1: Classic Descriptions

Attachments:
Augustine's Confessions Book VIII
Moses and the Burning Bush
Religious Experience in the New Testament
Religious Experience in the Bhagavad Gita

1.2: William James

Attachments:
James' Varieties of Religious Experience
William James Website
James in the Stanford Encyclopedia

2: Centre for the Study of Religious Experience

Attachments:
Research Centre

3: Two types of structure

See Keith Yandell, Philosophy of Religion (Routledge, 2002), Chapter 4.

3.1: Subject/Consciousness/Object

Attachments:
Peter Byrne 'Perceiving God and Realism'
Do Mystics see God?
Epistemolgical Problems of Perception

3.1.1: possibly veridical

Veridicity: A property of certain perceptions, memories and other acts of cognition which, though not in the strictest sense true -- since truth is usually considered an exclusive property of propositions and judgments -- tend to form true propositions. Non-veridical cognitions including illusions and hallucinations though not in themselves false are deceptive and foster falsity and error. -- L.W. From: http://www.ditext.com/runes/v.html

Attachments:
Veridical experience

3.2: Subject/Content

Attachments:
To Enlightenment Experience Map

4: Use in Arguments for Existence of God

Attachments:
Argument from religious experience
What can it establish?
Review of Gellman on Religious Experience

4.1: William Alston

Attachments:
Alston's Philosophy
Experiential Basis of Theism
Commentary on Alston
Richard Gale on Alston's Argument

4.2: Richard Swinburne

Attachments:
Swinburne Biography
Richard Gale on Swinburne's Argument

4.2.1: Principle of Credulity

Attachments:
Credulity Principle
Principle of Credulity applied

4.3: Contra: David Hume

Attachments:
Hume on Miracles
Miracles in the Stanford Encyclopedia
Critique of Hume on Miracles
Penelhum on Hume and the Paranormal

4.4: Testimony

Attachments:
Testimony in the Stanford Encyclopedia
Testimony, Expertise and Trust Bibliography

5: Reductive Explanations of Religious Experience

Attachments:
The psychology of religious experience
The Neuropsychology of Religious Experience
Scientific Analyses of Religious Experience
Religion and the Brain
Neurological sources of religious experience

6: Other Issues

6.1: Common Core Thesis

See George Lindbeck, The Nature of Doctrine, Chapter 2

Attachments:
George Lindbeck's Approach

6.2: Experience and Interpretation

Attachments:
P. C. Almond, Mystical Experience and Religious Doctrine
Mystical Experience and Interpretation

6.3: Experience and Culture

Attachments:
A.J. Ayer's near death experience

6.4: Perceptual Experience

Attachments:
Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience

6.5: Mysticism

Attachments:
Wikipedia on Mysticism
Evelyn Underhill on mysticism




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