Steven Katz argued in “Language, Epistemology, and Mysticism” (1978) that there are no unmediated experiences: what a mystic expects, practises and believes shapes what is experienced. A Buddhist does not experience God, nor a Jew nirvāṇa. Constructivism became the dominant scholarly view in the late twentieth century and remains contested.
Constructivism
The view that mystical experiences are shaped throughout by the concepts and practices of their tradition.
Also: contextualism