Epistemology of Religious Experience

Name: Epistemology of Religious Experience
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ISBN: 9780521477413

ISBN-10: 0521477417

ISBN-13: 9780521477413

Edition: 1994

Authors: Keith E. Yandell

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This book addresses a fundamental question in the philosophy of religion. Can religious experience provide evidence for religious belief? If so, how? Keith Yandell argues against the notion that religious experience is ineffable, while advocating the view that strong numinous experience provides some evidence that God exists. An attractive feature of the book is that it does not confine its attention to any one religious cultural tradition, but tracks the nature of religious experience across different traditions in both the East and the West.

Book details

List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/25/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.232



Introduction: Is our task impossible or impolite?



The Experiential Data



Religious experience, "East" and "West"



Some basic epistemological concepts



The Challenge from Ineffability



The outlines of ineffability



Ineffability relative to particular languages



Reasons in ineffability's favor



The Social Science Challenge



Nonepistemic explanation of belief



Nonreligious explanation of religious belief



The Religious Challenge



Self-authentication and verification



Religious practices and experiential confirmation



The Argument from Religious Experience



The argument in twentieth-century philosophy



The principle of experiential evidence



The argument triumphant



Enlightenment and Conceptual Experience



Are enlightenment experiences evidence for religious beliefs?



Conceptual experience and religious belief


Bibliography


Index