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10: Religious Experience

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Religious experience is concerned with the inner events, feelings, and/or emotions that reflect one's unique relationship to the Holy. The topic of religious experience in the 19th and 20th centuries has developed into means of showing how experience of God or other divine things could bypass the strictures of human cognition or categories of human culture.

When discussing this topic within religion, we can use the term epistemology, which is best understood as how one knows what one knows about the Holy and whether these experiences yield claims about the truth of religious beliefs.


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