Religious Experience: OCR Religious Studies

In this video I go through the Philosophy topic of Religious Experience following the OCR spec. If you have any questions please feel free to leave a comment :)

[Evelyn_rose_]

Not sure whether this helps anybody, but I remember William James' criteria for religious experience as PINT, so in order for something to classify as a RE according to James, they have to drink the whole PINT. Thank you for the awesome video !

[dudleychaplin]

This was super useful, thank you! I find the whole of philosophy really challenging within this A level, it is nice to have your videos to jump back to if I'm every feeling a bit lost.

[victoriabaker]

hi, if there was a question about whether religious experiences are simply a psychological or physiological effect would you still have to talk about all the different kinds of religious experience first (mystical, nominous, corperate, conversion) or not? im just a bit confused what you would write about for the A01? thank youu

[hh-bbzw]

Hi there, could you help me with this question: How successful are the views and main conclusions of William James? As there is not that much material just on William James, would it be wise to do a paragraph on each of the four qualities he claims is present in mystical experiences and then evaluate to what extent each one is true, using examples which perhaps contradict the said quality? Thank you

[afsxn]

thanks so much! just had a question- if i got a question on comparing individual and corporate experiences, could i discredit both and say they are both weak? as long as i give their strengths and conclude with why they're unreliable at the end of each paragraph?

[Rua]

I'm a bit confused about Happold’s ideas on the types of mysticism. Are these just his ideas on the function of religious experiences and how do we actually link it to other ideas such as James’ criteria?

[lilyholland]

Hi i’m a bit confused between mystical experiences and mysticism, i thought mystical experiences were supernatural such as St Teresa of Avalia but im now second guessing 😅

[iqrajannat]

how about near death experiences? how would you argue that they aren't religious experiences, but can be scientifically explained?