Unit 5: Optional theme — Philosophy of religion
Topic 5.3: Religious experience and behaviour Questions
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John Hick's idea of 'the Real' is that:
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Fill the gap: the strongest objection to pluralism is that the religions plainly ______ — one God or many? reborn or resurrected? — so calling all 'partial' denies each its core claims.
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To call a religious experience 'transcendent' is to say it involves:
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Which are the three recurring TYPES of religious experience in this micro?
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True or false? A religious experience is just another name for holding a religious belief.
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Fill the gap: people say a religious experience is ______ — words fail — and ______ — a sense of something beyond the ordinary world.
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What is the difference between PRIVATE and PUBLIC evidence, here?
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Alston's central comparison is between experiencing God and:
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The hard question in this micro is whether a religious experience can:
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Why does 'it's just brain activity' NOT by itself prove a religious experience is empty?
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Hick's elephant image is meant to show that:
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Religious pluralism is the view that:
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The problem of 'religion in a multicultural world' is that:
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What does a top-band Section B answer on this claim actually do?
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True or false? On pluralism, the deep disagreements between religions mean only one of them can be a genuine path.
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True or false? Alston argues that experiencing God is like ordinary perception — you may trust it without outside proof.
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A 'religious experience', in this topic, means:
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Mystical union is best described as:
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The 'understanding problem' for religious experience is that:
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Fill the gap: the main objection to Alston is that ordinary perception can be ______ by others, but a private religious experience cannot.
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