Near-Death Experiences and Religious Experience

An Exploration of Spirituality in Medicine

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3596440
AutoresJonathan Kopel (0000-0001-5934-2695, Texas Tech University, autor de correspondencia), Mark Webb (0000-0001-8979-8060), Mark Owen Webb (Texas Tech University)
Año2022
Volumen13
Número2
Páginas156
Fecha de publicación2022-02-11
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReligions (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
EditorialMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel13020156
OpenAlexW4211101599
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas34

There has been a continuous discussion of religious experience since William James, culminating in a rich and varied literature on the epistemology of religious experience in the late twentieth century. There has also been a burgeoning literature on near-death experiences (NDEs), largely on neurology and physiology and sometimes as possible counterevidence to naturalism. One important subject is largely missing, and that is a discussion of NDEs as religious experiences, and what light that might shed on their epistemic status. This paper is an attempt to fill that gap. In part one, we will delineate the topic of NDEs and what medical science has to say about them. In part two, we will lay out a general view of the epistemology of religious experience. In part three, we will apply that understanding of religious experience to NDEs and draw what lessons we may

Alternative medicine · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Naturalism · Religious experience · Sociology · Spirituality · Medicine · Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices