Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Characterizing Religious Experience
- Part II Religious Experience in Traditional Monotheism
- Part III Religious Experience Outside Traditional Monotheism
- Part IV Prominent Themes and Challenges
- 10 Exploring the Nature of Mystical Experience
- 11 Miraculous and Extraordinary Events As Religious Experience
- 12 Evil, Suffering, and Religious Experience
- 13 Naturalism and Religious Experience
- 14 Meaning and Social Value in Religious Experience
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- References
13 - Naturalism and Religious Experience
from Part IV - Prominent Themes and Challenges
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 June 2020
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Characterizing Religious Experience
- Part II Religious Experience in Traditional Monotheism
- Part III Religious Experience Outside Traditional Monotheism
- Part IV Prominent Themes and Challenges
- 10 Exploring the Nature of Mystical Experience
- 11 Miraculous and Extraordinary Events As Religious Experience
- 12 Evil, Suffering, and Religious Experience
- 13 Naturalism and Religious Experience
- 14 Meaning and Social Value in Religious Experience
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- References
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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