Near-Death Experiences and Religious Experience: An Exploration of Spirituality in Medicine

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dc.creatorKopel, Jonathan (TTUHSC)
dc.creatorWebb, Mark (TTU)
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-06T19:27:40Z
dc.date.available2023-04-06T19:27:40Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. cc-by
dc.description.abstractThere has been a continuous discussion of religious experience since William James, culminating in a rich and varied literature on the epistemology of religious experience in the late twentieth century. There has also been a burgeoning literature on near-death experiences (NDEs), largely on neurology and physiology and sometimes as possible counterevidence to naturalism. One important subject is largely missing, and that is a discussion of NDEs as religious experiences, and what light that might shed on their epistemic status. This paper is an attempt to fill that gap. In part one, we will delineate the topic of NDEs and what medical science has to say about them. In part two, we will lay out a general view of the epistemology of religious experience. In part three, we will apply that understanding of religious experience to NDEs and draw what lessons we may.
dc.identifier.citationKopel, J., & Webb, M.. 2022. Near-Death Experiences and Religious Experience: An Exploration of Spirituality in Medicine. Religions, 13(2). https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13020156
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/rel13020156
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2346/92560
dc.language.isoeng
dc.subjectExperience
dc.subjectFramework
dc.subjectNear-death experiences (NDE)
dc.subjectReligious experience
dc.titleNear-Death Experiences and Religious Experience: An Exploration of Spirituality in Medicine
dc.typeArticle

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