Religious Epiphanies Across Traditions and Cultures

This book explores religious epiphanies in which there is the appearance of God, a god or a goddess, or a manifestation of the divine or religious reality as received in human experience. Drawing upon the scriptures of various traditions, ancillary religious writings, psychological and anthropological studies, as well as reports of epiphanic experiences, the book presents and examines epiphanies as they have occurred across global religious traditions and cultures, historically and up to the present day. Primarily providing a study of the great range of epiphanies in their phenomenal presentation, Kellenberger also explores issues that arise for epiphanies, such as the matter of their veridicality (whether they are truly of or from the divine) and the question of whether all epiphanies are of the same religious reality.

• epiphany
• religious experience
• religious belief
• religious reality
• mysticism
• verdicality
• polytheistic epiphany
• nontheistic epiphany
• prophetic vision
• consciousness
• supernatural
• congition
• perception
• sacred spaces
• philosophy
• religion and society

“In this book James Kellenberger offers a productive set of categories for organizing and analyzing a diverse range of religious experiences from across many of the religious traditions and cultures of the globe.” (Timothy D. Knepper, Professor of Philosophy, Drake University, USA)

• Department of Philosophy, California State University, Northridge, USA

  James Kellenberger

James Kellenberger is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Northridge, USA. His previous books include Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, Dying to Self and Detachment, and, most recently, The Everlasting and the Eternal, and Wisdom: Folk, Arcane, Practical, Religious, Philosophical, Mystical.

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