An Introduction to Religious and Spiritual Experience

Abstract

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. What is a Spiritual Experience? 2. Terminology 3. Spiritual Experience and Religions 4. Experiences of the Founders/Messengers of the Major Religious Traditions 5. Experiences of the Founders/Messengers of Less Well-Known Religious Traditions 6. Religious Triggers of Spiritual Experience 7. Non-Religious Triggers of Spiritual Experience 8. Types of Spiritual Experience 9. Dying and Death 10. Mystics 11. Spiritual and Mystical Experiences of Well-Known People 12. Fruits of Spiritual Experience 13. Spiritual Experience Research 14. The Interpretation of Spiritual, Religious and Mystical Experience Conclusion Bibliography Notes.