From Suffering to Salvation: Making Sense of Religious Experiences
The international journal for the psychology of religion December 13, 2024 Ari Brouwer, LeRon Shults, Charles L. Raison
ABSTRACT The diverse nature of religious and spiritual experiences (RSEs) eludes easy comparison or conceptualization. Here we explore the phenomenological, situational and conceptual principles that connect eighty-two diverse RSE reports from the Hardy Database (https://alisterhardytrust.uwtsd.ac.uk/). We tentatively suggest that in addition to being unexpectedly significant and imbued with...