An introduction to religious and spiritual experience

12 Fruits of Spiritual Experience 
220
Paintings of Ken Butler-Evans 
222
The World’s Largest Book: Kuthodaw Pagoda 
222
Charities 223
The Müller Orphan Houses
 223
The Prison Phoenix Trust
 224
The Allan Sweeney International Reiki and Healing 
and Training Centre
 225
Religious Orders 
226
St Benedict (480–543)
 227
St Francis of Assisi (1182–1226)
 227
Outside the Walls: the Beguines
 228
Repentance and Forgiveness 
228
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission 
229
13 Spiritual Experience Research 
231
The Religious Experience Research Centre 
231
Contemporary Research
 233
Research Worldwide 
234
China
 235
Turkey
 236
India
 237
Consciousness Studies 
238
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The Interpretation of Spiritual, Religious and 
Mystical Experience 
240
Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834)
 241
Rudolf Otto (1869–1937)
 241
William James (1842–1910)
 242
Lynn Bridgers
 
(1956–)
 243
Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941) 
244
Martin Buber (1878–1965)
 245
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Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
 245
A. J. Ayer (1910–1989)
 246
W. T. Stace (1886–1967)
 247
Steven Katz (1944–)
 247
Ninian Smart (1927–2001)
 247
Robert Sharf (1953–)
 248
Richard Swinburne (1934–)
 248
Caroline Franks Davis
 249
Pluralism
 250
John Hick (1922–)
 250
Keith Ward (1938–)
 251
Implicit Religion 
252
Edward Bailey (1935–)
 252
Don Cupitt (1934–)
 252
Daniel Dennett (1942–)
 253
Richard Dawkins (1941–)
 253
D’Aquili (1940–1998) and Newberg (1966–)
 254
Recommended Reading 
254
Peter Donovan
 254
Paul Marshall
 255
Grahame Miles
 255