Today asceticism is not considered a useful or healthy mode of access to mystical experience.

Philo lived

Which book explains the universe and every aspect of life?

What Hebrew term means “Book of Creation”?

Both ‘sober’ and ‘intoxicated’ Sufis share

According to Rudolf Otto, feeling the numinous as being outside oneself leads one to

The Pentecostal movement revives practices such as speaking in tongues, prophesying, and faith healing. What earlier figure in the Christian tradition emphasized the very same manifestations?

_______________ refers to knowing something from direct observation.

The musical’s essential narrative centers on:

As societies grow larger, religions do all of the following except