Religious Experience

Define Religious Experience

• a spiritual and subjective experience with the divine being

• an experience where an individual meets God

• a form of pilgrimage

• an objective experience where an individuals change their faith

Religious Experiences are empirical. True or false?

• True

• False

Religious Experiences are divided into two categories. What are they?

• Direct and indirect

• Empirical and non-empirical

• Natural and unnatural

Which religious experience allows direct contact or oneness with God or reality?

• Visions

• Voices

• Mystical experiences

• Numinous experiences

• Corporate experiences

Which of the following are examples of visions?

• Sensory

• Transcendent

• Intellectual

• Dreams

• Noetic

Sensory visions are summarised in three ways. What are they?

• Natural

• Group

• Unitive

• Individual

• Corporeal

Which philosopher and psychologist saw conversions in psychological terms?

• Caroline Franks-Davis

• Sigmund Freud

• William James

• Carl Jung

• Rudolph Otto

William James identified a number of key features of conversions. What were they?

• Gradual or sudden

• Volitional or self-surrendering

• Imaginative or hallucinating

• Passive or active

• Subjective or objective

Who experienced a conversion from no religion to faith?

• St Teresa of Avila

• Paul on the road to Damascus

• Rumi

• Augustine of Hippo

What is transcendent mysticism?

• takes the practitioner beyond the realm of the normal everyday experience

• the closest a mortal being can get to the feeling of what it must be like for the departed souls to be in the presence of God

• a removal of the separation between the individual and God