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Face to faith: The Religious Experience Research Centre's evidence of everyday divinity is a joy, says Roger Tagholm

Source: The Guardian

Nov 07, 2009

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The Religious Experience Research Centre's evidence of everyday divinity is a joy, says Roger Tagholm

About three times a month a letter or email arrives at the library of the University of Wales at Lampeter. So far, so unremarkable, you might think – until you know their contents

The library is home to the Religious Experience Research Centre (RERC), which today celebrates its 40th anniversary with an Open Day at Harris Manchester College in Oxford, its former home. The letters and emails are from members of the public who believe they have had a "spiritual or religious experience or felt a presence or power, whether you call it God or not, which is different from your everyday life".

"Vauxhall station on a murky November Saturday evening is not the setting one would choose for a revelation of God," runs one account. "The whole compartment was filled with light. I felt caught up into some tremendous sense of being within a loving, triumphant and shining purpose. All men were shining and glorious beings who in the end would enter incredible joy. In a few moments

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