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Introduction: is our task impossible or impolite?; Part I. TheExperimental Data: 1. Religious experience, 'East' and 'West'; Some basicepistemological concepts; Part II. The Challenge from Ineffability: 3. Theoutlines of ineffability; ineffability relative to particular languages; 5.Reasons in ineffability's favour; Part III. The Social Science Challenge: 6.Nonepistemic explanation of belief; 7. Non-religious explanation of religiousbelief; Part IV. The Religious Challenge: 8. Self-authentication andverification; 9. Religious practices and experimential confirmation; Part V.The Argument from Religious Experience: 10. The argument in twentieth-centuryphilosophy; 11. The principle of experimential evidence; 12. The argumenttriumphant; Part VI. Enlightenment and Conceptual Experience: 13. Areenlightenment experiences evidence for religious beliefs? 14. Conceptualexperience and religious belief.