Religious Experience

Question 1

Mystical Experience

Answer 1

An experience of something beyond normal awareness

Question 2

Conversion experiences

Answer 2

A change of heart and turning around of one’s priorities following a new direction in life

Question 3

Pragmatism

Answer 3

The effects on and value to the individual life; emphasizes importance of the effects of religious experience as they hold value for the individual

Question 4

Empiricism

Answer 4

Using observation and evidence

Question 5

Pluralism

Answer 5

All religions are valuable and hold the truth

Question 6

Mass hysteria

Answer 6

Collective obsessional behavior, with psychological and physical symptoms

Question 7

Corporate religious experience

Answer 7

A religious experience shared with many people

Question 8

Principle of testimony

Answer 8

We should assume people are telling the truth unless we have good reason to believe otherwise

Question 9

Principle of Credulity

Answer 9

Things are as they seem to be unless we have evidence to the contrary