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WorksheetsReligious Experience
Total questions: 41
Worksheet time: 43mins
Select all examples of a religious experience
Conversion
Vision
Prayer
Miracle
Who founded the Religious Experience Research Unit?
Peter Vardy
Charles Darwin
Sir Alister Hardy
Isaac Newton
Which of the following are triggers of religious experience? Select all that apply.
Near Death Experience
A mundane day
A crisis
Psychological breakdown
When did the term 'mysticism' come about?
Late 18th - early 19th century
Late 19th - early 20th century
Late 17th - early 18th century
Late 16th - early 17th century
A numinous experience is ...
Experiencing the power or presence of a deity
Seeing something important or special
Having multiple visions of a deity
A type of intellectual vision
Who is the key scholar to use when discussing numinous experiences?
William James
Richard Swinburne
Rudolf Otto
C.S. Lewis
Which type of religious experiences are numinous?
Near death experiences
Visions
Conversion
All religious experiences
According to Otto's view of numinosity, which characteristic applies to God?
Transcendent
Immanent
Knowable
Omniscient
How did Otto describe a personal experience with natural forces?
A priori
Ex nihilo
A posteriori
Mysterium tremendum et fascinans
Select the 3 main qualities that Otto states the divine must have.
Love
Attractive and dangerous
Mystery
Ultimate importance
Powerful and knowledgable
A numinous experience is a tremendous and fascinating mystery because ...
It is unique, in the presence of something powerful, yet you want to know more
It is relaxing, calming and makes you feel at peace with the world
It makes you feel strong, important and like you can achieve anything
Which of the following describe Teresa of Avila?
Influential Catholic mystic
Spanish
French
Born in 15th century
Born in 16th century
Which of Teresa's life experiences is referred to as 'transverberation'?
Her severe illness
Her conversion to a deeper spiritual life
Her vision of Christ sending a spear through her heart
The death of her mother
What type of prayer did Teresa promote?
Vocal
Mental
Group
What does Teresa say the goal of prayer is?
To progress through the 7 places to moksha
To progress to entering Heaven
To progress to the castle
To progress through the 7 places to God
How many dwelling places did Teresa say needed to be progressed through to reach God?
5
6
7
8
How are the final 4 dwelling places entered?
By one's own effort
By passive or supernatural prayer
By full reliance on God
By the power of God
What is a conversion experience?
When someone abandons their own belief system and adopts a new one
When someone maintains their beliefs and adopts new ones also
When someone maintains their belief system and rejects all others
What is a corporate religious experience?
When one has a religious experience alone
When one has a religious experience in a group
When one has a different religious experience to others present
When one has the same or similar experience to others present
Which is a biblical example of a corporate religious experience?
Pentecost
Jesus' resurrection
Prophecy
Saul's conversion
What characteristics does William James apply to mystical experiences?
Ineffable
Noetic
Immanent
Transient
Passivity
Select 2 problems that arise from James'4 characteristics.
Are religious experiences described as ineffable, not just mystical experiences?
More knowledge is imparted to these chosen individuals
Everyone will have a transient experience at some point in their life
It could be argued that not all experiences are passive as some may be sought after
When James refers to 'fruits' of religious experience, what does he mean?
The effect of transforming the views of society
The experience causes a one-off effect on a person's life
The effect of transforming a person's life
The experience having no effect
A truly logical and scientific statement has to be ...
Mythical
Evidential
A priori
Falsifiable
Who are the key scholars when referring to verification and falsification?
Flew and Swinburne
Flew and Ayer
Ayer and Swinburne
Ayer and James
How did Ayer say propositions could be verified?
Evidence
Knowledge
What 3 categories did Caroline Davis suggest challenge the idea that a reported experience actually proves something?
Knowledge-related challenges
Description-related challenges
Subject-related challenges
Evidence-related challenges
Object-related challenges
What is Freud's view of religion?
An obsession of faith
A traditional obsession
A universal belief
A universal, obsessional neurosis
How does Freud describe a religious experience?
Expression of the desire to retreat from the world back into the womb
Expression of the desire to know God
Expression of the desire to retreat to a prayerful and meditational state
Expression of the desire to reject faith and belief in God
Where does Fauerbacher argue religious experiences have their origin?
From God
In the mind
From another individual
In the spirit
How many layers does Freud say the psyche is made up of?
1
2
3
4
According to Freud, what are the layers of the psyche?
Ego
Selfishness
Super-ego
Ip
Id
This branch of science is beginning to shed light on how different stimuli can cause different kinds of mental state ...
Neurophysiology
Psychology
Neuropsychology
Biology
What is natural theology?
Arguments for God
Arguments for God based on reason and evidence
Reason and evidence
Arguments for God based on knowledge
What does Hick expect faith to be based on?
Trust in God
Belief in God
Religious experience
Belief and trust in God
What is religious pluralism?
A policy that only allows one religious belief system to exist in a given society
An attitude that positively supports all religious beliefs
Diversity in religious belief across the world
An attitude or policy regarding the diversity of religious belief systems co-existing in a society
What factors account for differences in the 'Real'?
Different cultures
Different views
Different experiences
Different gods
What is Hick's pluralism sometimes called?
Religious pluralism
Incidental pluralism
Transcendental pluralism
Cultural pluralism
What does Kant say noumena is?
Phenomena
Thing as we experience it
Thing in itself
Which of the following reasons support a copernican revolution in theology? Select all that apply.
Empirical evidence
Knowledge gained
Practical considerations
Philosophical logic
How are Hick's ideas described?
Philosophical Theology
Religious Theology
Pluralistic Theology
Global Theology
