Science and religious experience : are they similar forms of knowledge? / Grahame Miles.

Brighton [England] ; Portland, OR : Sussex Academic Press, 2007.

xviii, 429 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sources of uplifting experiences -- How do we know what knowledge is? : a European search for objective knowledge -- How do we know what knowledge is? : an American search for personal knowledge -- Are there different kinds of knowledge? : educationalists' views of knowledge after 1960 -- Changing views of scientific knowledge -- The integrity of science : is science objective or personal knowledge? -- Forgotten knowledge : what happened to emotion? -- Is all knowledge relative? -- Religion and transcendence -- Religious and mystical experience : empirical studies -- Religious and mystical experience : humanist studies -- Religious and mystical experience : the model builders -- Religious experience and interpretation -- Religious experience : insights from depth psychology -- Religious experience : insights from the main psychological approaches -- Philosophy and religious experience -- Gathering threads -- The Wallas models of religious experience in context -- Science and religious experience : are they similar forms of knowledge?