These are long research papers aiming to make a contribution to the scholarly community's attempts to construct a comprehensive interpretation of religious experience that is attentive to material from the many contributing disciplines. The research essays have been produced by Boston University graduate students interested in religious experience.
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Art by Noah Hilsenrad; from here. |
The “Bynum-thesis”: About the suffering of the female body in religious /mystical practice and its reception: criticism, qualification, substantiation. Essay by Katrien Vander Straeten, Boston University, 2001.