Religious Studies A-Level
Mystical Experience
What Mystical Experience means in Religious Studies A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Mystical Experience
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A type of religious experience characterized by a sense of unity with the divine. Often described using James' PINT criteria.
Topics that use Mystical Experience
- Philosophy of Religion (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Epistemic Distance
- Eschatological Verification
- Gratuitous Suffering
- Numinous
- Principle of Credulity
- Privatio Boni
- Reductionism
- Soul-Making
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