Cambridge Companions to Religion - Series page

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The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience - Title page

pp v-v

Copyright page

pp vi-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

Figures

pp ix-x

Contributors

pp xi-xii

Preface

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-22

Part I - Characterizing Religious Experience

pp 23-96

1 - Psychology of Religion Approaches to the Study of Religious Experience

pp 25-54

2 - Philosophy of Religion Approaches to the Study of Religious Experience

pp 55-75

3 - Theology, Religious Diversity, and Religious Experience

pp 76-96

Part II - Religious Experience in Traditional Monotheism

pp 97-156

4 - Illumined by Meaning

pp 99-115

5 - Religious Experience in Early Christianity

pp 116-133

6 - Religious Experience in Traditional Islam

pp 134-156

Part III - Religious Experience Outside Traditional Monotheism

pp 157-236

7 - Religious Experience in Ancient Confucianism and Daoism

pp 159-186

8 - Religious Experience in Buddhism

pp 187-207

9 - Rāmānuja’s Eleventh Century Hindu Theology of Religious Experience

pp 208-236

Part IV - Prominent Themes and Challenges

pp 237-334

10 - Exploring the Nature of Mystical Experience

pp 239-260

11 - Miraculous and Extraordinary Events As Religious Experience

pp 261-283

12 - Evil, Suffering, and Religious Experience

pp 284-302

13 - Naturalism and Religious Experience

pp 303-318

14 - Meaning and Social Value in Religious Experience

pp 319-334

Index

pp 335-339

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