Understanding Religious Experience

Peter Connolly was, for many years, senior lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Chichester, England, where he taught courses on Ethics, Indian Religion and Psychology of Religion. He has also worked as an associate lecturer in both Psychology and Religious Studies with the Open University and has delivered many courses on the history and philosophy of yoga for a number of yoga training institutions. A revised edition of his A Student's Guide to the History and Philosophy of Yoga, also published by Equinox, was released in 2014.

• Table of Contents Preliminaries Acknowledgements Introduction PART ONE A Critical Phenomenology of Religious  Experience PART TWO A Reductionist Explanation of Religious Experience PART THREE Loose Ends Bibliography Index