corporate vs individual?

Question 1

corporate religious experiences

Answer 1

a religious experienced shared with many people

Question 2

mass hysteria

Answer 2

collective obsessional behaviour, with psychological and physical symptoms

Question 3

corporate more reliable: more witnesses

Answer 3

makes the cumulative testimony more convincing. but could be due to social conformity or mass hysteria (getting caught up in emotion of the moment)

Question 4

corporate more reliable: empirical and observable effects

Answer 4

Pentecost believers were heard to speak many different languages; children of Medujugorje saw same vision of Mary which they have acted on since

Question 5

corporate more reliable: Swinburne

Answer 5

principle of credulity could defend the reliability of corporate religious experiences. we should believe they are as they seem to be if there’s no overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

Question 6

individual more reliable: Swinburne principle of t

Answer 6

principle of testimony argues unless we have good reason to doubt, we should believe what people tell us. Swinburne suggests people usually tell the truth and personal testimony is the only way to find out about this subjective experience

Question 7

individual more reliable: empirical evidence

Answer 7

lasting phages in a person’s character after a religious experience. James called ‘fruits’. noted a common factor was transiency

Question 8

individual more reliable: Swinburne principle of c

Answer 8

we should credit the individuals experience with having religious experience unless there’s evidence that proves it impossible.