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1
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What is a religious experience?

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A subjective experience interpreted within a religious framework

2
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What does Otto say?

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Numinous experiences are the “inner most core” of all religions - they have three things which make them not “normal” (mysterium, tremendum, and fascinans)

3
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What does Starbuck say?

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Everybody has a conversion experience when they’re teens

4
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What are swinburne’s 5 forms of REs?

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The nature of God, the principle of training, the principle of credulity, the cumulative argument, the historical argument

5
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What does Greeley say?

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The key theme of testimonies in the USA include deep inner peace, certainty of a positive outcome, sense of joy and emotional intensity

6
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What does James say?

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REs draw on a common range of emotions directed at the divine, something is real if it has real effects (PINT)

7
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What do Alston and Otto say?

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We don’t experience God in any other way that non-sensory (he just fills us with awe)

8
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What does Hume say?

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The conflicting claims argument is a “triumph for the sceptic”

9
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What does Kant say?

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We cannot use our senses to experience God since he is not in the nominal world

10
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What kind of argument is it?

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A posteriori and inductive