The Study of Religious Experience aims to show how a range of disciplines - including anthropology, philosophy, religious studies, theology, biblical studies and history - approach the topic of religious experience, how this approach is applied and what contributions they make to the study of religious experience.

Foreword by Peggy Morgan, Mansfield College, Oxford 1. Introduction to the Study of Religious ExperienceBettina E. SchmidtSection One: Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religious Experience 2. How to Study Religious Experience: Historical and Methodological Reflections on the Study of the ParanormalFiona Bowie, Wolfson College, Oxford3. Ethnological and Neurophenomenological Approaches to Religious ExperienceMichael Winkelman, Arizona State University (retired)Section Two: Methodological Challenges for the Study of Religious Experience 4. Fieldwork and Embodied Knowledge: Researching the Experiences of Spirit Mediums in Brazil Emily Pierini, University of Wales, Trinity Saint David5. Cultural-Linguistic Constructivism and the Challenge of Near-Death and Out-of-Body ExperiencesGregory Shushan, Ian Ramsay Centre, Oxford University6. Provincializing Religious Experience: Methodological Challenges to the Study of Religious Experiences in Brazil Bettina E. SchmidtSection Three: Theological and Philosophical Approaches to the Study of Religious Experience7. Immediate Revelation or the Basest Idolatry? Theology and Religious ExperienceRobert Pope, University of Wales, Trinity Saint David8 An Argument from Religious Experience: Origins and RevelationsTristan Nash, University of Wales, Trinity Saint DavidSection Four: Reflections on Types of Religious Experience 9. Text and Experience: Reflections on 'Seeing' in the Gospel of John Catrin H. Williams, University of Wales, Trinity Saint David10. Music as Spiritual Experience June Boyce-Tillman, University of Winchester11. Is it possible to have a 'religious experience' in cyberspace?Gary Bunt, University of Wales, Lampeter