In this research, 73 participants were categorized according to religious orientation (intrinsic, extrinsic, or indiscriminately pro) and were subjected to an isolation tank experience under one of two set conditions (religious or nonreligious). The experience was assessed by means of a modified mysticism scale with two factors: a minimal phenomenological experience factor (I) and a religious...
The relevance of theologies for religious experience is illustrated in three content areas in the empirical psychology of religion: (a) projection theories of religious experience; (b) images-of-God research; and (c) identity theories of mystical experience. In each area arguments are made to indicate the relevance of theologies for empirical research.