Introduction to “Religious Experience in the Hindu Tradition”
Department of Religious Studies, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424, USA
Religions 2019, 10(5), 329; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10050329
Received: 6 May 2019
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Revised: 11 May 2019
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Accepted: 11 May 2019
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Published: 16 May 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Religious Experience in the Hindu Tradition)
This special issue of Religions brings together a talented group of international scholars who have studied and written on the Hindu tradition. The topic of religious experience is much debated in the field of Religious Studies, and here we present studies of Hindu religious experience explored from a variety of regions and perspectives. They are intended to show that religious experience has long been an important part of Hinduism, and we consider them to be important and relevant. As a body of scholarship, these articles refine our understanding of the range and variety of religious experience in Hinduism. In addition to their substantive contributions, the authors also show important new directions in the study of the third-largest religion in the world, with over one billion followers. This introduction will discuss some relevant issues in the field of Indology, some problems of language, and the difficulties faced in the study of religious experience. It will also give a brief sketch of the religious experiences described by our authors in some major types of Hinduism.
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Keywords:
India; Hinduism; yoga; tantra; devotion; meditation; prayer; saints; brahman; bhāva; mahābhāva; bhakti; trance; samādhi; mokṣa; darśan; bhakti
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