Understanding Religious Experience
From Conviction to Life's Meaning

Offers a new approach to religious experience and the kind of evidence it provides.

Paul K. Moser (Author)

9781108471428, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 5 December 2019

357 pages
23.5 x 15.9 x 2.4 cm, 0.64 kg

'This book is noteworthy for its clarity of expression and systematic approach to the subject of religious experience.' R. Ward, Choice

In this book, Paul K. Moser offers a new approach to religious experience and the kind of evidence it provides. Here, he explains the nature of theistic and non-theistic experience in relation to the meaning of human life and its underlying evidence, with special attention given to the perspectives of Tolstoy, Buddha, Confucius, Krishna, Moses, the apostle Paul, and Muhammad. Among the many topics explored in this timely volume are: religious experience characterized in a unifying conception; religious experience naturalized relative to science; religious experience psychologized in merely psychological phenomena; and religious experience cognized relative to potential defeaters from evil, divine hiddenness, and religious diversity. Understanding Religious Experience will benefit those interested in the nature of religion and can be used in relevant courses in religious studies, philosophy, theology, Biblical studies, and the history of religion.

1. Religious experience characterized
2. Religious experience interpreted
3. Religious experience practiced
4. Religious experience naturalized
5. Religious experience psychologized
6. Religious experience moralized
7. Religious experience cognized: foundations
8. Religious experience cognized: defeaters.

Subject Areas: Philosophy of religion [HRAB]