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Below are the best books we could find on God and religious experience.

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The Way of the Mystics

Howard Thurman tended not to speak of his own mystical inclinations, conscious that the word mysticism was likely to be misunderstood. And yet Thurman is commonly recognized as a mystic in the sense that he used the word to describe someone who had an acute experience of the Divine Life.

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The Cloud of Unknowing: A Book of Contemplation

Evelyn Underhill was one of the greatest spiritual writers of the twentieth century. Her legacy as a pivotal figure in Christian mysticism endures today.

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God of the Oppressed

A landmark in the development of Black Theology and the first effort to present a systematic theology drawing fully on the resources of African-American religion and culture.

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The School of Charity

These meditations, based upon the principle articles of the Nicene Creed, were originally presented by Evelyn Underhill (1875 – 1941) at a retreat she conducted at her beloved Pleshy, a small village in England that was the site of her conversion to the Christian faith.

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The Creative Encounter

Howard Thurman writes here about the "meaning of the religious experience as it involves the individual totally, which means inclusive of feelings and emotions."

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Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings

Offers the voice of a modern pioneer responsible for the rediscovery of mysticism in everyday life.

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The Life of the Spirit: And the Life of Today

In untechnical language, the author indicates the characteristic experiences which are fundamental to the spiritual life in all great religions and the way in which these express themselves in the modern world-view of history, modern psychological inquiry, institutional religion, education, and the...

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From Science to God: A Physicist’s Journey into the Mystery of Consciousness

From Science to God offers a crash course in the nature of reality.

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Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience

In Perceiving God, William P. Alston offers a clear and provocative account of the epistemology of religious experience. He argues that the "perception of God"―his term for direct experiential awareness of God―makes a major contribution to the grounds of religious belief.

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The Authenticity of Faith: The Varieties and Illusions of Religious Experience

A psychologist tests Freud's claims that faith is a form of wishful thinking and belief in God a consoling illusion. Is faith simply a form of wishful thinking? Is belief in God merely a consoling illusion? So argued Sigmund Freud in The Future of an Illusion.

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