Religious Experience

Question 1

What is a religious experience

Answer 1

an encounter or a sense of God or the spiritual world

Question 2

What is a direct religious experience

Answer 2

involve contact with God

Question 3

What is an indirect religious experience

Answer 3

involve internal sense of something other than this world, such as a sense of wonder in creation

Question 4

What is an example of a religious experience

Answer 4

Saul to St Paul

Question 5

How does Ninian Smart define a religious experience

Answer 5

some kind of perception of the invisible world, or a perception that some visible person or thing is a manifestation of the invisible world