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unusual facts about religious experience



Anomalistic psychology

Lionel Weatherly a psychiatrist and John Nevil Maskelyne a magician wrote The Supernatural? (1891) which offered rational explanations for apparitions, paranormal and religious experiences and Spiritualism.


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African-American literature

Jarena Lee published two religious autobiographical narratives: The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee and Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee.

James Brandwood

These were edited by John Bradshaw of Manchester, and deal with matters of religious experience, ranging in date from 1782 to 1823.

Mysticism

Wayne Proudfoot traces the roots of the notion of "religious experience" further back to the German theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834), who argued that religion is based on a feeling of the infinite.