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13 - Naturalism and Religious Experience

from Part IV - Prominent Themes and Challenges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 June 2020

By
Willem B. Drees
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

Drees examines a science-inspired naturalism that endorses a fully naturalistic view of reality, but does not exclude religious experience as a category of human experience. He considers some exceptional experiences that apparently conflict with natural events and experiences that coincide with affective responses, such as awe and wonder, proposing that the relevant exceptional experiences and affective experiences are explainable, at least in principle, within a naturalistic purview.

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Religious experienceNaturalismScienceGodExceptional experiencesAnomaliesAweReligious naturalists
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The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience , pp. 303 - 318
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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