How will these resources help you?

Religious experiences are at the heart of religions as innovators and reformists often have their faith confirmed, challenged or replaced following an intense encounter with ‘the Divine’. These resources explore these experiences through various disciplines. First, a phenomenological approach provides a categorisation of these experiences for us to understand them. Recent scientific developments have led to a new field – neurotheology – where we can see, and perhaps even replicate, how the religious experience looks within the brains of the person experiencing them. Finally, the list turns to the linguistic and anthropological discipline to look more deeply at one form of religious experience common across Charismatic and Pentecostal Christian congregations – ‘speaking in tongues’.