Conversion and corporate experiences
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- Conversion and corporate experiences
- Corporate religious experiences
- E.G. the Toronto Blessing
- A number of people have the experience.
- All other experiences are private and impossible to verify.
- Such experiences should be judged on the effects.
- Critics examine sacred texts and question whether the experience fits in with what is revealed of God's nature elsewhere.
- Conversion as evidence for God
- Although the inner experience is not empirically detectable, the resulting changes in behaviou are something that can be empirically observed.
- William James argues the truth is in the results.
- Psychological views on conversion
- Changes are usually gradual.
- Sometimes 'crisis' type events can cause rapid transformation, so converstion could be seen in the same psychological light.
- Edwin Starbuck said religious conversions occur to people between the age of 15 and 24.
- Non-religious adolescents appear to go through similar stages of anxiety and depression before finding 'happy relief' and a sense of identity.
- Some theists argue that to reduce conversion to just a psychological phenomenon fails to address the question of the cause of the experience.
- Corporate religious experiences
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