Abstract

GARCIA-ALANDETE, Joaquín. On religious experience: phenomenological aproximation. Folios [online]. 2009, n.30, pp.115-126. ISSN 0123-4870.

In this paper, some considerations on religious experience are explained, from a phenomenological perspective. The starting point is the human being's religious structure, and focuses in religious experience as experience of personal meeting with trascendence, leading in mystic experience as eight of this meet-ing and characterized by a whole of specifics phenomenological features. Finally, it is emphasized the requirement of caution when mystic experience is valued, specially if valuation is carried out from psychopathology.

Keywords : Religious experience; mysticism; phenomenology; psychology.

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