religious experience
collocation in Englishmeaningsofreligiousandexperience
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religious
adjective
us//uk/rɪˈlɪdʒ.əs/
relating ...
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experience
noun
uk/ɪkˈspɪə.ri.əns/us/ɪkˈspɪr.i.əns/
(the process of getting) knowledge or skill from doing, seeing, or ...
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(Definition ofreligiousandexperiencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofreligious experience
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On this model, two or more different symbolic systems can be equally expressive and evocative of genuinereligiousexperience.
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Truereligiousexperienceinvolves more than the feeling of absolute dependence, even when united with a mode of sensible self-consciousness.
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Part 1 offers an account of the nature ofreligiousexperienceand proposes a criterion for identifying genuine religious experiences.
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It can indeed be argued that he saw scientific experiment as a form ofreligiousexperience.
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Religious fulfilments as human states can be viewed under the broad heading ofreligiousexperience, after all.
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The fact that believers report accurately about varied religious ends does not undercut the trustworthiness ofreligiousexperienceas evidence.
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When such a perspective is rejected in favour of a monotheistic assumption, the diversity ofreligiousexperiencebecomes more problematic.
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Not many people would agree, however, that the ritual of, say, brushing their teeth makes this areligiousexperience.
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He considers the diversity ofreligiousexperienceas a possible challenge to this argument.
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The situation is analogous with respect toreligiousexperience.
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At the core of this understanding of doctrine isreligiousexperience.
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On the one hand these conclusions bolster the case for the veridical character ofreligiousexperience.
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And accounts of consciousness can impact views onreligiousexperience, the coherence of an afterlife, miracles, divine attributes, the soul, and religious ethics.
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Although traditional church structures and teachings were thus affirmed, he insists that the aesthetic changes were subversive in that they created a newreligiousexperience.
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A genuinereligiousexperienceshould thus be distinguished from a pathological experience that is conceptualized in religious terms.
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He aims for knowledge of geological processes using practical, empirical evidence, not for a romantic orreligiousexperience.
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What is intuited inreligiousexperience, however, is not given through the senses.
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In addition, the claim thatreligiousexperienceis wholly distinct from and more fundamental to religious belief than religious practices and institutions is contentious.
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I argue that we can enhance the evidential value of the testimony ofreligiousexperienceif we allow for the possibility of multiple religious ends.
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