ABSTRACT
While most discussion of religious experience focuses on its more extreme forms, many would claim that some everyday experiences have a religious flavour. William James (1892) wrote of religion as ‘the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine’. While we shall consider the diversity of religious experiences later, to attempt a precise definition to delimit the phenomena is hardly a profitable undertaking.
