Wikipedia's article on religious experience as an academic and philosophical category, consulted 2026-08-13.
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Reliability tier 3: a continuously community-edited tertiary reference with no formal peer review process, suitable for citable, checkable factual claims but not treated as authoritative on genuinely contested points. NotesWikipedia's article on religious experience, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for William James's 1902 four marks of mystical experience, Rudolf Otto's 1917 Das Heilige and the numinous, and Steven Katz's constructivist critique of perennialism from the 1970s onward.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_experience
Source Typereference
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