Table of Contents

Introduction
I. Some Presuppositions
II. Religious Experience
III. Arguments from Religious Experience
IV. A Cumulative Case
V. Challenges to Religious Experience
VI. Experience and Interpretation
VII. The Conflicting Claims Challenge
VIII. The Reductionist Challenge
IX. Towards a Cumulative Case for Theism
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Caroline Franks Davis is a Research Analyst in the University Studies Group at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

Reviews

an excellent piece of philosophical analysis, combining careful conceptual reflection with a review of relevant material from the fields of cognitive and social psychology. Faith and Philosophy there is something refreshing about Davis' elegantly written text and its thesis that religious experience, especially mystical and numinous experiences, can serve as evidence for the common-core beliefs of theism ... Davis does an admirable job in reopening an issue which many may regard as closed. Theological Studies this well-expressed book ... should be of great interest to scholars of religious experience ... it marshals a considerable body of evidence from various disciplines, particularly psychology, in an admirably succinct way, within a clear framework' Times Higher Education Supplement a lucidly written book that makes a valuable and needed contribution to the philosophy of religion Religious Studies there is care and intelligence, even-handedness and discrimination in this book Theology una descripcion, meticulosa, clara, profunda, de aquellos procesos en que el hombre religioso siente el contacto con el Absoluto Pensamiento Mit einer Fulle hilfreicher Unterscheidungen klart das Buch auf breiter materialer Basis einen seit Schleiermacher und James grundlegenden religionsphilosophischen Begriff. Systematische Philosophie