Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Characterizing Religious Experience
- Part II Religious Experience in Traditional Monotheism
- Part III Religious Experience Outside Traditional Monotheism
- Part IV Prominent Themes and Challenges
- 10 Exploring the Nature of Mystical Experience
- 11 Miraculous and Extraordinary Events As Religious Experience
- 12 Evil, Suffering, and Religious Experience
- 13 Naturalism and Religious Experience
- 14 Meaning and Social Value in Religious Experience
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- References
10 - Exploring the Nature of Mystical Experience
from Part IV - Prominent Themes and Challenges
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 June 2020
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Characterizing Religious Experience
- Part II Religious Experience in Traditional Monotheism
- Part III Religious Experience Outside Traditional Monotheism
- Part IV Prominent Themes and Challenges
- 10 Exploring the Nature of Mystical Experience
- 11 Miraculous and Extraordinary Events As Religious Experience
- 12 Evil, Suffering, and Religious Experience
- 13 Naturalism and Religious Experience
- 14 Meaning and Social Value in Religious Experience
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- References
Summary
Katz examines mystical experience in relation to the tendency that its content turns out to be what the mystic desires it to be, and he suggests that this tendency is not to be accounted for by the nature of the mystical experience itself. Instead, he proposes that the ineffable and ecstatic experiences of mystics are expressed by them from within the traditions they follow, thus influencing their characterizations of their mystical experiences.
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