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@Oliver Schick
I don't mean the sort of Lourdes nonsense (there have obviously been a lot of delusional experiences, which are still interesting in their own right), but religious feelings in the face of the sublime.
I think that as a matter of principle we can't have absolutely objective knowledge (i.e., science can't get us there, either), and that causes (more or less strong, depending on the person) feelings of alternately helplessness, awe, depair, solace, and others. Very conflicting, and of course the transcendent object of the potentially resultant faith can't be 'proven'.
I follow Kant in a lot of aspects of his philosophy of religion. This is an on-line summary:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-religion/
I've only skimmed this, so I don't necessarily agree with it, but at a cursory glance it seems like a good page. I haven't read much on this topic for a while, though, so don't take my word for it.
Kant's main work on this is 'Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason*' *("Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der bloßen Vernunft"), but there are relevant discussions elsewhere in his work.Obviously, there are manyother interesting sources that you could look at.