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The 52 pages that link to Mystical or religious experience, each with the reason it gives.

• PrayerRelated: Prayer may be understood as a setting for felt divine presence.

• TheismRelated: Its reliability and interpretation can support or undermine theistic belief.

• AgnosticismRelated: Its evidential force is disputed, shaping whether divine existence seems knowable.

• MysticismNarrower topic: Mysticism is a pursuit of a particular kind of religious experience.

• Apophatic theologyRelated: Apophatic accounts often distinguish such encounter from the concepts used to describe it.

• Religious naturalismRelated: Religious naturalists can interpret such experiences through human psychology and the natural world.

• Divine hiddennessRelated: Such experiences are offered as evidence that God is not wholly concealed.

• DivinationNarrower topic: Some divinatory claims are grounded in experiences understood as communication with sacred powers.

• RevelationRelated: Personal encounters can be understood as disclosures of divine presence.

• GlossolaliaNarrower topic: Practitioners often understand glossolalia as a direct experience of the Holy Spirit.

• Anthropology of religionRelated: Ethnographers examine how communities recognize, narrate, and authorize such experiences.

• Friedrich SchleiermacherRelated: His account made religious experience central to modern debates about faith.

• FideismRelated: Some fideists treat such experiences as grounds for faith rather than public evidence.

• WorshipRelated: Worship may seek or express such experiences, though religious experience can occur outside ritual.

• FaithRelated: Such experiences may ground faith for individuals, while their interpretation remains disputed.

• Religious epistemologyRelated: Some accounts treat such experiences as prima facie grounds for religious belief.

• Spiritual directionRelated: Directees may bring such experiences for reflection and discernment.

• Religious skepticismRelated: Skepticism asks whether such experiences reliably support the interpretations attached to them.

• TranscendenceRelated: Such experiences are often taken as evidence of, or access to, something transcending ordinary life.

• Philosophy of religionRelated: Its evidential force depends on how experience can justify belief.

• SupernaturalRelated: Such experiences are often taken as encounters with supernatural agency.

• GodRelated: Experiences of divine presence can shape belief in God.

• Divine revelationNarrower topic: Revelation is one kind of religious experience, though many such experiences make no revelatory claim.

• RamakrishnaNarrower topic: His teachings gave spiritual experience priority over abstract argument.

• Religious beliefRelated: Such experiences can reinforce, transform, or challenge religious convictions.

• Cognitive science of religionRelated: Its varied forms challenge accounts based only on beliefs transmitted through culture.

• History of religionRelated: Historians study how accounts of experience vary across periods and traditions.

• ProphetRelated: Prophetic calling is often grounded in a reported religious experience.

• Reformed epistemologyRelated: Such experiences can prompt properly basic religious beliefs within the account.

• Religious ritualCompared with: Ritual is an organized practice, whereas religious experience describes a kind of personal encounter.

• Sarvepalli RadhakrishnanRelated: He treated immediate spiritual experience as a source of religious knowledge.

• SpiritualityBroader topic: It is one recognizable form of spirituality, though spirituality also includes nonreligious experience.

• DharmakāyaNarrower topic: Descriptions of Dharmakāya often connect doctrinal claims with reports of awakened realization.

• First VisionNarrower topic: The vision is understood by believers as a formative encounter with God.

• Religious ecstasyNarrower topic: Religious ecstasy is an especially intense, altered form within the broader range of religious experience.

• Psychology of religionRelated: Psychologists study how such experiences arise and how people interpret them.

• SacrednessRelated: Such experiences can make sacredness personally compelling rather than merely customary.

• Speaking in tonguesRelated: Speakers may describe tongues as an immediate experience of divine presence.

• Faith and rationalityRelated: It can function as personal evidence, though its interpretation remains contested.

• Margery KempeRelated: Kempe’s visions and sensations are presented as direct encounters with Christ.

• PeaceRelated: The story tests whether inward religious conviction brings certainty, comfort, or further distress.

• William AlstonRelated: Alston argues that experiences of God can support beliefs within a religious practice.

• Criticism of ChristianityRelated: Arguments about religious experience address evidence for Christian belief.

• Existence of GodRelated: Such experiences are often offered as personal evidence for divine existence.

• Spiritual practiceRelated: Practices may shape the conditions through which people interpret experiences as spiritual.

• The Varieties of Religious ExperienceNarrower topic: Personal experience, rather than religious institutions, supplies the book’s central subject.

• Conceptions of GodRelated: Such experiences can shape claims about God's presence and character.

• Evolutionary origin of religionRelated: Its psychological and cultural sources remain difficult to separate from claims about evolutionary origins.

• Morality and religionRelated: Experiences of the sacred can shape moral conviction without supplying a formal rule.

• Negative and positive atheismRelated: Its evidential force is disputed by both negative and positive atheists.