Introduction to the Special Issue “Imagining Ultimacy: Religious and Spiritual Experience in Literature”
Religions March 5, 2026 DOI: 10.3390/rel17030323 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Keywords | Religious experience Spirituality Meaning existential Action physics Epistemology |
| Key points | Argues that religious and spiritual experiences are commonly characterized by scholars as full, profound, meaningful, and enlightening, and are often described as “special” experiences or matters of “ultimate concern.” |
Abstract
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 [...]