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(2018) Psychosis or mystical religious experience?, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
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presbyterian Church (USA) views on mystical religious experience (mre)
Susan L. DeHoff
pp. 137-182
This chapter presents qualitative research. It gives highlights of the 2016 Presbyterian Panel Study as it relates to doctrinal beliefs and current denominational concerns. The author's 2011 research in which 20 Presbyterian pastors/pastoral counselors in the Presbytery of Boston were interviewed regarding how they interpret profound experiences reported to them is presented in full. Participants were asked to tell about experiences they interpreted as mystical religious, indicative of a mental health problem, or too confusing to interpret either way. Multiple examples of each kind of experience are given along with methods and source norms participants used in making interpretations. Categories for various mystical religious experiences are introduced.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-68261-7_5
Full citation:
DeHoff, S. L. (2018). Research: presbyterian Church (USA) views on mystical religious experience (mre), in Psychosis or mystical religious experience?, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 137-182.
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