A summary of the main arguments for and against religious experience being successful in providing evidence for the existence of God, as well as the classifications of religious experience according to scholars such as Richard Swinburne, Martin Buber, Rudolf Otto and William James.

This essay covers unit 2 of the Edexcel Religious Studies specification - the nature and influence of religious experience. It can be used in Section C of Paper 1 (Question 4), includes a synoptic link, and can be tailored to earlier questions. The first part of the essay explores the nature, shown in unit 2.1, such as the different types of religious experiences as well as descriptions of them. The essay then moves on to unit 2.2 (a) through examining the influence of the experiences, such as ...

Concise notes on religious experiences applicable to all exam boards A sufficient amount of scholars

These notes helped me to achieve an A* and summarises the following: - basics of religious experiences - different types of religious experiences - examples of religious experiences - views of key philosophers on religious experiences - criticisms of religious experiences - strengths of religious experiences

Summary of Philosophy Unit 2 - the nature and influence of religious experience specification notes, including: 2.1 - The Nature of Religious Experience: Context of religious experience across religious traditions, range of dominions related to belief in God and/or ulmate reality, theistic and monistic views, ineffability, noetic, transience, passivity; Types: conversion, prayer, meditation, mysticism, numinous, relationship between religious experience and proposional and non-proposi...