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The Understanding of Religious Experience.

The article of Ninan Smart on "understanding of religious experience" is important in the field of gnosticism due to discussing some methodological and epistemological issues. The privilege of Smartʹs article lies in its emphasis on the complexity of these issues. He offers a balanced methodological approach against most of the former scholars of gnosticism who offer an approach based on "all or none". These approaches argue that either an individual is a gnostic and sees the things completely clear, or is not a gnostic and hence is silent in this regard and his observations are outside the realm of this subject. Smartʹs article specifically discusses the meaning of the word "experience" as it is used in the field of religious experience.