Editing Religious ecstasy (section)

=== Notable individuals or movements ===
* {{anli|Montanism}}, a prophetic sect, founded by Montanus and two female colleagues, Prisca (or Priscilla) and Maximilla, who attained ecstatic visions through fasting and prayer.
* {{anli|Alexander Scriabin}}, who intended his music to induce religious ecstasy.
* {{anli|Anastenaria}}
* {{anli|Thomas Aquinas}} experienced an ecstasy during a church-service towards the end of his life that caused him to stop writing.
* {{anli|Dionysus|Dionysos / Bacchus}}, religious ecstasy and ritual madness.
* {{anli|Teresa of Avila}}, [[mysticism|Mystic]], first entered states of ecstasy while studying religious texts when taken ill in a [[Carmelite]] cloister.
* {{anli|Catherine of Siena}}, an important figure in [[bridal theology]]
* {{anli|Hildegard of Bingen}}, [[abbess]] and [[Christian mysticism|Christian mystic]].
* {{anli|Joan of Arc}}, motivated by ecstatic visions to partake in war. 
* {{anli|Caitanya Mahaprabhu}}, founder of [[Gaudiya Vaishnavism]], immersed into deeper and deeper stages of ecstasy towards Krishna during the last 24 years of his life.
* {{anli|Pio of Pietrelcina}}
* {{anli|Joseph of Cupertino}}
* {{anli|Rabia Basri}}, mystic poet
* {{anli|Rumi|Maulanah Rumi}}, mystic poet
* {{anli|Hafez}}, mystic poet
* {{anli|Moinuddin Chishti}}
* {{anli|Amir Khusrow}} mystic poet
* {{anli|Marguerite Porete}}, burned at the stake for her writings.
* {{anli|Simone Weil}}
* [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] – Russian novelist with epilepsy, notable for including Christian themes, described feelings of religious euphoria before a seizure would take place (1821-1881)