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Psychology and Religious Experience

Description
Interdisciplinary approaches to religious experiences (such as confession, conversion, mystical ecstasy, and possession). Discussion of writings and empirical research on consciousness; dream, trance, meditative states; religious healing, and so forth. Comparing religious interpretations to psychological and scientific explanations of religious phenomena. Prerequisite: Upper division standing and one prior course in Psychology or Religious Studies, or instructor consent.

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Normal Grade Rules

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3