sentiments‚ and lacking the tools to describe emotion and the structure and purpose of fandom‚ decide‚ “It’s a religious thing” (Doss 1999‚ 72). As a credit to these scholars‚ fans use of religious language complicates matters and if one is to focus on that‚ you miss the purpose of this language. This first stream of celebrity music fandom-as-religion literature demonstrates the type of argument many scholars favor when encountering expression of fan sentiment‚ fan action‚ and the structural and functional
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As I do not practice any religion‚ I thought that for the religious experience project‚ I would write about my observations as my sister rekindles her faith and practice in Roman Catholicism. My sister and I were both raised Catholic by our parents and both attended Sunday school where our grandmother was our teacher. However‚ after our parents divorced about 17 years ago‚ we both strayed away from our faith. I went on to keep an open mind and learn of other religions but never found my fit. My sister
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My Personal Religious Experience I’ve been attending church for as long as I can remember. The earliest time I remember going to church was when I was in pre-school‚ and I attended the same church until high school. Sundays were routine‚ we attended church‚ went out to eat after with other members of the church‚ and then went home to watch either football or baseball (sports being my second religion). Skipping church was never an option‚ nor did I really want to miss it. I had good friends at
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‘Religious experiences are all illusions.’ Discuss. Most arguments for the existence of God are ‘a posteriori’‚ seeking to move from experiences within the world to the existence of God rather than relying on the definition of God to prove his existence. Religious experience is an interaction with God or a feeling of connection with a higher power. It is interesting to note that William James never spoke of ‘God’ but of the ‘spiritual’‚ ‘unseen order’ or ‘higher’ aspects of the world. Does a person
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Religious Experiences Are Not Really Experiences of God To start‚ one must define what a religious experience is. It is generally agreed upon that there are two different types of religious experiences; a direct and an indirect. A direct religious experience is often described as ineffable- that it is beyond a humans’ capacity to explain and fully describe the divinity of their experience. The person does not prompt the experience; it is God who chooses to reveal him/herself directly to the person
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understanding of religious experience. In a study of 2‚500 Finns‚ one in three (37%) said they had received help from God (Church Research Centre‚ 2001). Whatever you call this kind of encounter‚ it would be very difficult to even begin to discuss it at all without a language code to do so. Through “The Varieties of Religious Experience”‚ William James gave scholars a framework through which to discourse on religious experience. For example‚ one of James’ four characteristics of a mystical experience is ineffability
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features of religious experience I will examine the distinctive features of a religious experience and how they differ from everyday experiences from the world religions of Christianity and Buddhism. I intend to use the religious experiences of mysticism‚ near death experiences and revelations to highlight the distinctive features. These distinctive features are what separate religious experiences from ordinary experiences‚ such as us not having suitable words in our vocabulary to describe religious experiences
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Basinger’s Argument According to Williams‚ 2013‚ religious exclusivism refers to the view that individual’s religious belief is the only appropriate and correct view‚ where all others are seen as false and wrong. That is‚ a notion that only one primary theistic system contains the truth‚ while others are wrong‚ mistaken‚ or far away from the truth. Apparently‚ this sort of thinking connects with religious extremists and fundamentals. One of the philosophers by the name Basinger argues for a middle
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The Religious Conflict of A Private Experience In "A Private Experience" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichiea‚ a religious conflict is clearly indicated in the beginning. A Christian Igbo girl hides from a violent riot with a Muslim woman whose dignity and faith force her to encounter the realities and fears she is been pushing away. Many examples are used to display the differences between these two people‚ but the one that sticks out the most for me is the scarf and how it is represented in her story
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i) Analyse the Argument for the Existence of God from Religious Experience (18) The argument for the existence of God from Religious Experience is a simple one‚ with only two premises. The first being that some people have‚ or have had a religious experience‚ the second premise is that these are only explicable though God‚ thus leading to the conclusion that God exists. This leads us to question‚ what exactly are religious experiences? Theologians have struggled for centuries trying to define
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