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1.5 Religious Experiences Flashcards

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1
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What is a religious experience?

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a non-empirical direct or personal experience with God

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2
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What are the 3 different types of religious experiences?

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  • visions
  • numinous
  • mystical
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3
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What are the impacts about religious experiences?

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they draw people closer to god

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Define visions

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an image or event where there is a message or revelation

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What are corporeal visions?

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where a figure is externally present

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What are imaginative visions?

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a vision seen in the minds eye

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What are intellectual visions?

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visions which bring new knowledge or understanding and no figure is seen/heard

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Example of corporeal vision

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St Bernadette/St Paul

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Example of imaginative vision

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Pharoah/Joseph’s ladder

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Example of intellectual vision

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St Teresa of Avila

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Who proposed numinous visions?

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Rudolf Otto

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What is Otto’s main work?

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‘The idea of the Holy’

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13
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Define numinous experiences

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Experiences of the ‘wholly other’

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Where does numinous derive from?

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‘numen’ meaning power or deity

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15
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Define non-rational

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Cannot make sense of it using own senses/intellect

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Define ‘sui generis’

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unique/of its own kind/ in a class of its own

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What quality does Otto emphasise?

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Transcendence

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18
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How did C S Lewis define numinous experiences?

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‘uncanny’ with feelings of dread

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19
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Biblical example of numinous experience?

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  • Moses and the burning bush
  • Peter and the fish
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Define ‘mysterium tremendum et fascinans’

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a tremendus and fascinating mystery

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What is a mystical experience?

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an extraordinary union with the divine characterised by feelings of bliss and ecstacy

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22
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Main work of William James

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Varieties of religious experiences

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23
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How does James describe mystical experiences?

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“an ability to see the truth in a special way”

24
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Define passivity

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the mystic is passive and is taken over by the experience

25
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Define ineffability

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experiences beyond expression and words

26
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Define noetic quality

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give the person new knowledge

27
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Define transciency

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mystical experiences can only last for a short amount of time

28
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What is James’ view on the use of drugs

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They can cause genuine mystical experiences

29
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Finish the quote by James: Halluciogenics allow “depth beyond depth

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of truth which seems revealed to the inhaler

30
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What do mystical experiences give to the mystic?

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a new level of consciousness

31
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Finish Stace’s quote: “either God is a mystery or …

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“He is nothing at all”

32
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Finish Stace’s quote: “mystical experiences transcends ..

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our sensory-intellectual consciousness

33
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Define non-sensuous

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no use of senses

34
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Define non-intellectual

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no use of reason

35
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What is an extrovertive mystical experience

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where you can still have sense of external things

36
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What is an introvertive mystical experience?

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the mystic loses all control and senses

37
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Why is it difficult to verify religious experiences: individual testimony

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we only have the word of an individual who claims to have had the experience as evidence

38
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Why is it difficult to verify religious experiences: private events

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religious experiences are private events so are just in the mind

39
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Why is it difficult to verify religious experiences: contradictory experiences

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Different religions have different experiences

40
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Why is it difficult to verify religious experiences: rare events

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Religious experiences are too rare so there is not enough evidence to support them

41
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What is Freud’s challenge to religious experiences?

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They are just wish-fulfillment

42
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What is religion’s respons to Freud?

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Freud theory is just a hypothesis so cannot be tested

43
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What is temporal lobe epilepsy challenge to religious experiences?

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some people suffer from this condition whcih suggests religious experiences are nothing more than abnormal brain states

44
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What is religion’s respons to TLE?

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If God wants to give people religious experiences then these have to be processed by the brain

45
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What is the god helmet challenge to religious experiences?

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magnetic coils used to electrically stimulate the brain whcih causes religious experiences. If science can replicate religious experiences then they are not real events

46
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What is religion’s response to the God helmet?

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The mind can generate experiences of God - this does not meant that they are false

47
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What is the drug challenge to religious experiences?

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religious experiences can be caused by mind altering substances such as drugs and alcohol

48
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What is religion’s response to the God helmet?

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James argues that it does not matter how a religious experience is brought about - it is still real

49
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What is Swinburne’s stance on God

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God exists and can be proven through cumulative arguments

50
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What is Swinburne’s principle of credulity?

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If it seems to a subject that X is present then X probably is present

51
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What is Swinburne’s principle of testimony?

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in the absence of special considerations, the experiences of others are probably as they report them

52
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One strength of religious experiences

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some can be empirically verified e.g. Lourdes

53
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One weakness of religious experiences

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they are difficult to empirically verify

54
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Influence of religious experiences: one example of religious experiences as foundational

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  • Prophet Muhammad
  • Guru Nanak
55
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Influence of religious experiences: one example of religious experiences as inspirational

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  • St Paul
  • Joan of Arc
56
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Influence of religious experiences: one example of religious experiences as pilgrimages

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  • Mecca
  • Lourdes
57
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Influence of religious experiences: one example of religious experiences as life changing

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  • St Paul

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