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11 - Miraculous and Extraordinary Events As Religious Experience

from Part IV - Prominent Themes and Challenges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 June 2020

By
Fiona Bowie
Edited by
Paul K. Moser  and
Chad Meister
Paul K. Moser
Affiliation:
Loyola University, Chicago
Chad Meister
Affiliation:
Bethel University, Indiana
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Summary

Bowie focuses on some experiences that are self-described or described by others as being “religious,” in order to explore what qualifies an experience to be extraordinary and miraculous. She uses two case studies to illustrate the role experience plays in extraordinary and miraculous events and the relation they have to mystical experience, one involving a near-death experience and the other involving apparitions of Mary.

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Religious experienceMiraclesExtraordinary eventsNear-death experiencesMystical experiencesTransformationOrdinary existence
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The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience , pp. 261 - 283
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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