Religious Experience: The Nature of RE

Question 1

What is religious experience in GENERAL?

Answer 1

Religious experiences relate to somebody having a special encounter with a religious being who is believed to produce a sense of awe, mystery or wonder for humans

Question 2

What are the multiple types of religious experience

Answer 2

Conversion, Prayer, Meditation, Mysticism and Numinous.

Question 3

What is conversion as a type of religious experience and EXAMPLES

Answer 3

When religious experience has caused somebody to have a shift from one set of religious convictions to another
-It can be gradual or sudden
-NIKKY CRUZ

Question 4

What is prayer as a type of religious experience and EXAMPLES

Answer 4

Prayer is described by theists as a conversation with God.
-There are different types such as adoration (praising God), confession (owning up and repenting) thanksgiving (thanking god for his blessings), petition (asking god for smth) and intercession (asking god to help OTHERS)
-It deepens a persons faith

Question 5

What is meditation as a type of religious experience and examples

Answer 5

This is a monistic tradition and a spiritual cleansing of the mind COMMONLY USED BY HINDUS (they believe it can help them to connect with brahman/the divine) and BUDDHISTS (it replaces angry thoughts with peaceful ones within the mind

Question 6

What is mysticism in religious experience and what is an example of it

Answer 6

Experience of direct contact or oneness with God (Fully swept up in the presence of GOd)
-usually features a profound sense of union with the divine or something being revealed