Mystical experience
| Mystical experience | |
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| Type | Concept / ideal |
| Field | Philosophy of religion |
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Mystical experience is a concept or ideal used in the comparative study of religion, theology, and philosophy of religion. On Wikitheism, it is treated as part of knowledge, reason, and evidence: questions about faith, reason, revelation, interpretation, religious experience, and religious truth-claims.
Overview
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In philosophy of religion
[edit | edit source]In philosophy of religion, concepts such as Mystical experience can be studied through questions about meaning, truth, practice, value, experience, community, and ultimate reality. Some traditions treat such concepts as doctrines, while others treat them as symbols, disciplines, ethical ideals, ritual patterns, or interpretive categories.
Associated traditions and worldviews
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- Christianity
- Islam
- Judaism
- Hinduism
- Buddhism
- Baha'i Faith
- New Religious Movements
- Unaffiliated and Secular Worldviews
- Unitarian Universalism
- Adidam
- Aetherius Society
- Anthroposophy
- Eckankar
- Evolutionary Spirituality
- Exotheology
- Gnosticism
- Hermeticism
- Heaven's Gate
- Manichaeism
- New Age spirituality
- Raelism
- Scientology
- Spiritism
- Spiritualism
- Subud
- Terasem
- Theosophy
- UFO religion
- Unarius Academy of Science
- Nuwaubian Nation