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Conversion - Experience |
A form of religious experience that causes the experiencer to then change their beliefs according to the experience they have had. Biblical example - St. Paul Modern Example - Nicky Cruz |
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Corporate / Group - Experience |
A form of religious experience that happens when there are multiple people who all experience the same thing/result in the same way after an experience. Example - Toronto blessing of 1994 Example - Fatima shepherd experience |
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Numinous - Experience |
An experience of pure awe and wonder that is shown by God creating a feeling of obscurity compared to the pure power shown by God.
"There is no religion in which it [the numinous] does not live at the innermost core and without it no religion would be worthy of the name " - Rudolf Otto Biblical Example - Isaiah Modern(ish) example - Blaise Paschal |
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Visions - Experience |
An experience that happens, whilst conscious or unconscious, in the form of visions. There is the imaginative state which is the dream state where the experience can occur. An intellectual vision where vision where the experiencer is aware of something different not necessarily see though. Finally there is the corporal vision where an experience happens through vision. Biblical example - Moses and the burning bush Modern example - WWI soldiers being saved by god |
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Voices - Experience |
An experience, where the experiencer hears voices either in their minds of physical audible voices. There is the disembodied voice where there is a voice heard, but no body to go with it. There is the authoritative voice where God's authority is passed on to the experiencer. Finally there is the revelation experience where the experiencer hears a voice that reveals God and his wishes. Biblical example - Moses and the commandments Modern example - St. Bernadette hearing the virgin Mary. |
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William James - Thinker |
He believed that the world we see around us is part of something beyond our understanding and in our lives we should try and understand as much as we can this something. The way we can do this is through communication or prayer with this something which produces real effects allowing real actions to be taken. He looked at many of the different objections to religious experience and countered them such as the thought that the different, diverse people who experience their God's in their cultures is proof that there isn't just one God so therefore no God. To this argument, he says that people should be allowed to interpret their experiences how they want to without it being specific to just one religion, especially the way the world is becoming with more equal rights. Some people then will argue that these experiences are very similar to emotions felt by us humans which are incredibly hard to prove and measure so how can we prove or measure a religious experience? James saw no issue with religious experiences being similar to emotions because with all of the different religious theories in the world, the main differences are the cultures but the teachings and feelings are similar. |
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Sigmund Freud - Thinker |
He though of religious experiences as illusions and projections of the "experiencer's" past and deep emotions. So an example of this would be if someone visioned themselves on a cross next to Jesus which can be seen as a very powerful experience but to Freud, it explained that they are a very lonely person who is suffering. |
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Karl Marx - Thinker |
He believed that the different religions around are simply created to help people feel like there is a purpose to life and these beliefs and feelings are a result of the society and economy at the time. Agreeing with Hegel's belief that in each period of history, there is a specific culture and way of life for that time and these are just progressions in human life until people get to communism. |
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Ludwig Andres Feuerbach - Thinker |
He believed that people used religion as a method of the people to be free realising there is a human destiny. This led to Marx's beliefs causing Marx to then state the religion is "the opium of the people". |
