Study of Religious Experience

Bettina E. Schmidt is Professor in Study of Religions at University of Wales Trinity Saint David.

"A rich and welcome addition to the literature which has something for anyone with a serious interest in this area of investigation." - Professor Peggy Morgan, Mansfield College, University of Oxford "This book is absolutely ideal for experienced researchers or writers who seek a scholarly interpretation on how the study of religious experience has been incorporated into fields as diverse as psychology, anthropology, theology, and religion." --Lucinda Yang, Reading Religion, December 5, 2017

• Foreword by Peggy Morgan, Mansfield College, Oxford 1. Introduction to the Study of Religious Experience Bettina E. Schmidt Section One: Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religious Experience 2. How to Study Religious Experience: Historical and Methodological Reflections on the Study of the Paranormal Fiona Bowie, Wolfson College, Oxford 3. Ethnological and Neurophenomenological Approaches to Religious Experience Michael Winkelman, Arizona State University (retired) Section Two: Methodological Challenges for the Study of Religious Experience 4. Fieldwork and Embodied Knowledge: Researching the Experiences of Spirit Mediums in Brazil Emily Pierini, University of Wales, Trinity Saint David 5. Cultural-Linguistic Constructivism and the Challenge of Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences Gregory Shushan, Ian Ramsay Centre, Oxford University 6. Provincializing Religious Experience: Methodological Challenges to the Study of Religious Experiences in Brazil Bettina E. Schmidt Section Three: Theological and Philosophical Approaches to the Study of Religious Experience 7. Immediate Revelation or the Basest Idolatry? Theology and Religious Experience Robert Pope, University of Wales, Trinity Saint David 8 An Argument from Religious Experience: Origins and Revelations Tristan Nash, University of Wales, Trinity Saint David Section Four: Reflections on Types of Religious Experience 9. Text and Experience: Reflections on 'Seeing' in the Gospel of John Catrin H. Williams, University of Wales, Trinity Saint David 10. Music as Spiritual Experience June Boyce-Tillman, University of Winchester 11. Is it possible to have a 'religious experience' in cyberspace? Gary Bunt, University of Wales, Lampeter