religious experience

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Introduction
Study and evaluation
Religious experience and other experience
- Views of experience in general
- Views of religious experience
The structure of religious experience
- The self and the other
- Social forms or expressions
- Objective “intention,” or reference
- Immediacy and mediation
  - Revelational and mystical immediacy
  - Mediation through analysis and critical interpretation
  - Preparations for experience
Situational contexts and forms of expression
- Cultic and devotional
- Life crises and rites of passage
- Sacred and secular
- Verbal, conceptual, and symbolic
Types of religious experience and personality

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