Definition of Religious trance

1. Noun. A trance induced by intense religious devotion; does not show reduced bodily functions that are typical of other trances.

Exact synonyms: Ecstatic State
Generic synonyms: Trance

Lexicographical Neighbors of Religious Trance

religious outcast
religious person
religious philosophies
religious pluralism
religious residence
religious right
religious rite
religious ritual
religious school
religious sect
religious service
religious services
religious song
religious text
religious toleration
religious trance (current term)
religious writing
religiousism
religiously
religiousness
religiousnesses
relik
reliks
reline
relined
relines
relining
relink
relinked
relinking

Literary usage of Religious trance

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (1905)
"religious trance is trance. And the moment we renounce the absurd notion that a thing is exploded away as soon as it is classed with others, or its origin ..."

2. The Varieties of religious experience: A Study in Human Nature; Being the by William James (1902)
"religious trance is trance. And the moment we renounce the absurd notion that a thing is exploded away as soon as it is classed with others, or its origin ..."

3. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (1902)
"religious trance is trance. And the moment we renounce the absurd notion that a thing is exploded away as soon as it is classed with others, or its origin ..."

4. A Philosophical Essay on Credulity and Superstition: And Also on Animal by Rufus Blakeman (1849)
"An argument derivable from the same source, and of similar application, is worthy of consideration in an investigation of the subject of religious trance. ..."

5. A Selected Bibliography and Syllabus of the History of the South, 1584-1876 by Howard Haines Brinton, Roderick Langmere Haig-Brown, Alexander von Humboldt, John Nicol Farquhar, William Kenneth Boyd, John Washington Lockhart, Robert Reid, José López de Bustamante, Robert Preston Brooks, Jonnie (Lockhart) Wallis, Evergreen Press, F (1915)
"This he expounded to Gadadhar; and the latter proved a quick pupil. He also taught him the highest stage of religious trance, ..."

6. Modern Religious Movements in India by John Nicol Farquhar (1915)
"This he expounded to Gadadhar; and the latter proved a quick pupil. He also taught him the highest stage of religious trance, ..."

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