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OverviewIn this book, Phillip Wiebe examines religious, spiritual, and mystical experiences, assessing how these experiences appear to implicate a spiritual order. Despite the current prevalence of naturalism and atheism, he argues that experiences purporting to have a religious or spiritual significance deserve close empirical investigation. Wiebe surveys the broad scope of religious experience and considers different types of evidence that might give rise to a belief in phenomena such as spirits, paranormal events, God, and an afterlife. He demonstrates that there are different explanations and interpretations of religious experiences, both because they are typically personal accounts, and they suggest a reality that is often unobservable. Wiebe also addresses how to evaluate evidence for theories that postulate unobservables in general, and a Theory of Spirits in particular. Calling for more rigorous investigation of these phenomena, Wiebe frames the study of religious experience among other accepted social sciences that seek to understand religion. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Phillip H. Wiebe (Trinity Western University, British Columbia)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9781108423717ISBN 10: 110842371 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 30 June 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available, will be POD ![]() This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon it's release. This is a print on demand item which is still yet to be released. Table of Contents1. The scope of 'religious experience'; 2. The general theory of spirits; 3. Testability and evidence; 4. Phenomenological evidence; 5. Evidence for the world of spirits.ReviewsAuthor InformationPhillip H. Wiebe (1945-2018) was Professor of Philosophy and former Dean of Arts and Religious Studies at Trinity Western University, Canada. He was the author of Visions and Appearances of Jesus (2014), God and Other Spirits (2004), and Intuitive Knowing as Spiritual Experience (2015). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |