RT Article
T1 Near-Death Experiences and Religious Experience: An Exploration of Spirituality in Medicine
JF Religions
VO 13
IS 2
A1 Kopel, Jonathan
A1 Webb, Mark
LA English
PB MDPI
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1804376124
AB There 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.
K1 Experience
K1 Framework
K1 near-death experiences (NDE)
K1 Religious Experience
DO 10.3390/rel13020156