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(2011) Psychology, religion, and the nature of the soul, Dordrecht, Springer.
As we have seen Psychology was originally welcomed by many believers as promising a scientific vindication of the authenticity of religious experience. In this chapter I wish, somewhat perfunctorily, to summarise what I take to be the status of the authenticity issue. Although its prominence as a topic has oscillated considerably over time it is one which has guaranteed that the two camps remain unsevered, not least because it bears most directly on the mythos versus ">logos tension. On the religious side the promise persists, on the Psychological side the nature of religious experience is unambiguously a part of its subject matter.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7173-9_6
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Richards, G. (2011). The authenticity of religious experience, in Psychology, religion, and the nature of the soul, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 65-68.
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