Religious experience

Question 1

What are mystical experiences?

Answer 1

used to describe experience of direct contact or oneness with god or ultimate reality

Question 2

What are conversion experiences?

Answer 2

Describing an experience that leads to an adoption of a new religious belief that differs from a previously held belief

Question 3

What are visions?

Answer 3

Describing experience of god or another religious figure appearing with a message

Question 4

What are voices?

Answer 4

Used to describe experience of hearing God or another religious figure , or having a conversation with them

Question 5

What is prayer?

Answer 5

The experience of communicating with God or a higher power through the medium of prayer

Question 6

What are the statistics for religious experience?

Answer 6

31% British people and 35% American people have encountered it

Question 7

Why are religious experiences different from ordinary experiences?

Answer 7

They aren’t verifiable, not universal to humans, not experiences of empirical events or items, subjunctive, interpretive

Question 8

Why might god not allow for religious exepreinces/conversations with him or contact?

Answer 8

To maintain at this epistemic distance and to allow humans to be free; maintaining this epistemic distance