[German Version]

(Lat. auditio, hearing) denotes an experience in which someone hears something although there is no real speaker. Therefore, from a psychological point of view this experience is, like a vision, regarded as a hallucination. Both events occur in a waking state and are different from dreams. Auditory hallucination becomes an important phenomenon for religious studies because of its specific religious interpretation as revelation, the calling of a prophet, or an oracle, etc. Through its religious interpretation and acceptance within a social community,…