Experience of the sacred Book

	Preface
	Introduction	1
	Religious Experience: Numinous, Mystical, and Feminist (Essential Phenomenology of Religion)
	On Numinous Experience as Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans	77
	Basic Character of the Divine	86
	Phenomenology of Mysticism	97
	Samadhi	112
	Nothingness, Awakening, Insight, New Naming	120
	Philosophy of Religion and Revelation: Autonomous Reflection vs. Theophany	129
	Social and Symbolic Forms of the Sacred (Historical-Typological Phenomenology of Religion)
	Phenomenology of Religion and the Art of Story-telling: The Relevance of William Golding's 'The Inheritors' to Religious Studies	145
	Prayer	167
	Three Types of Pilgrimage in Japan	177
	The World, the City, the House	188
	The Cult of the Dead among North American Indians	200
	Levels of Meaning in the Religious Life-World (Existential-Hermeneutical Phenomenology of Religion)
	Guilt, Ethics and Religion	223
	The Experience of the Holy and the Idea of God	238
	The Existential Meaning of Guilt	248
	The Complexity of Symbols	265
	Phenomenology and Dynamics of Hoping	273
	Selected Bibliography	289
	Acknowledgments	293