Introduction to the Special Issue “Imagining Ultimacy: Religious and Spiritual Experience in Literature” Religions March 5, 2026 Matthew Wickman Scholars who study religious and spiritual experiences often describe them as full, profound, meaningful, and enlightening: “special” experiences, Ann Taves calls them; for Paul Tillich, they are matters of “ultimate concern [...] DOI: 10.3390/rel17030323 (opens in new tab) Religious experience Spirituality Meaning existential Action physics +1