Modest Reflections on the Term ‘Religious Experience’

What is it about?

The essay urges a reconsider of the category "religious experience" from the way this category is treated in standard textbooks in the philosophy of religion.

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Why is it important?

The essay redirects philosophers away from trying to decide whether religious experience (often that which is "extra-ordinary" or "mystical") can be the basis for a sound deduction of the existence of God (or the Transcendent or Absolute), to a consideration of whether such experience (and, centrally, what is ordinary, rather than extra-ordinary) makes much religious practice and credence credible.