Ma`rifat Adyan

Religious experience is one of the significant issues in the philosophy of religion that has been raised in the field of religious studies in the recent century. Although this concept was first considered in modern Europe by Western thinkers, it gradually extended to other religious traditions. Among religious schools, the Ramakrishna school, considered one of the reform movements of Hinduism, has attracted the attention of contemporary thinkers, particularly proponents of spirituality independent of organized religion, by emphasizing the direct experience of divinity and its universal accessibility. Therefore, examining and critiquing Ramakrishna's view on religious experience based on Islamic principles seems necessary. This research, using an analytical-critical method, examines religious experience in the Ramakrishna school and demonstrates that characteristics such as the infallibility of religious experience, functionalist evaluation, the equating of revelation with religious experience, the consideration of religious experience as the criterion for sacred texts and religious claims, and the theory of Manifestationist approach (perennialism) in explaining the diversity of religious experiences face fundamental challenges from an Islamic perspective.