The Role of Revelation in the World's Religions

· McFarland
eBook
233
Pages
Eligible

About this eBook

The human reception of divine messages, known as revelation, has often played a central role in world religions. This study explores how spirituality and the personal experience of the divine has been expressed and preserved in various religious traditions. The phenomenon of revelation is explored and interpreted through examples from across the religious spectrum, and six different types of revelation are posited: visions and voices, divination, spirit journey, spirit mediation, mystical union, and divine incarnation.

About the author

Beverly Moon, former historian of religions at the Methodist Graduate School of Theology in Taipei, Taiwan, now lives in Austin, Texas. She has served as an editor for encyclopedias of religion and archetypal symbolism, as well as a collection of essays about goddesses associated with political power.

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