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Religious experience vocabulary
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- 1EmpiricismAll knowledge is derived from experience. Experience always means sensory experience.
- 2GenuineThere is nothing to imply that it has been contrived by an individual or individuals.
- 3NuminousThe feeling of 'holy' and includes awe, fascination, religious awareness and the smallness of self
- 4Intellectual conversionsA change in the way of thinking about something
- 5Moral conversionsA change in behaviour so that the individual does what is thought to be right
- 6Social conversionsAcceptance of a different way of life or worship
- 7Mystical experienceA direct and intimate experience of God
- 8DivineA perfect being that is all-powerful and is not comparable to anything human. Eg God
- 9IneffabilityThe experience cannot be communicated in normal speech
- 10NoeticThe mind gaining knowledge and understanding
- 11TransiencyReligious experience only last for a limited time
- 12PassivityThe religious experience occurs without any action on the part of the recipient
- 13TranscendentGod is seperate and superior to the phsical material world. God is outside space and time
- 14ImmanenceGod is in the active world
- 15Nature-mysticismObserving the beauty or vastness and nature triggers a mystical experience
- 16God-mysticismMeditating on the attributes of God and the desire to be one with god triggers a mystical experience
- 17Existential judgementA 'primary' question, concerned with the nature of something. Eg how it came into existence, what it does and of what it is made
- 18Value judgementA 'secondary' question concerned with the meaning, importance and significance of something
- 19Medical materialismTo try to explain mystical experiences through a medical cause such as epilepsy
- 20StigmataUnexplained markings on a person's body that correspond to the wounds of Christ
- 21Cognitive NeuroscienceNeuroscience (studies the nervous system), and cognitive neuroscience (the branch of neuroscience that studies the biological foundations of mental phenomena such as religious experiences)
- 22Correspondence theoryTries to verify the theory by seeing it is matches to the known facts
- 23Coherence theoryTries to verify the theory by seeing if it agrees with the other truths that have been proved already
- 24Pragmatic theoryTries to verify the theory in practical terms through any benefits gained from the experience
- 25Principle of credulityIf a person sees something/someone then it is usually the ase that they have seen something/someone
- 26Principle of testimonyUnless you have reliable reasons to doubt what a person says, they have experienced then what is said should be accepted as true
- 27Phenomenal worldWhat is known through the appearance of something
- 28Noumenal worldWhat is known by the mind rather than the senses
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