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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    29 June 2025
    03 July 2025
    ISBN:
    9781108529228
    9781108423717
    9781108438292
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108529228
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.454kg, 234 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (230 x 150 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.36kg, 234 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy: General Interest, Religion, Theology
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society
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    Subjects:
    Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy: General Interest, Religion, Theology
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society
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    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.

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