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All in the mind?

Is religious experience all in the mind? Sarah K. Tyler asks if it can tell us anything about the nature of God

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The claim that religious experience can tell us nothing about God because it is all in the mind strikes at the heart of the problem of religious experience:

The study of religious experience, which took off with William James’ definitive study in 1902, has put the topic at the forefront of current theological debate, with the fields of neuro-theology and psychology making considerable contributions.

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