Near-Death Experiences and Religious Experience

An Exploration of Spirituality in Medicine

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ID3596440
AutoresJonathan Kopel (0000-0001-5934-2695, Texas Tech University, autor correspondente), Mark Webb (0000-0001-8979-8060), Mark Owen Webb (Texas Tech University)
Ano2022
Volume13
Fascículo2
Páginas156
Data de publicação2022-02-11
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoReligions (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
EditoraMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel13020156
OpenAlexW4211101599
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências 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