The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience

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.