Pre-requisites

None.

Co-requisites

None.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, the student will be able to:

• Explain how philosophy has informed religious thought.

• Use philosophical techniques for testing claims of knowledge and practice.

• Summarise the relationships between contemporary science and religious belief.

• Recognise the claims of one’s own religious experience and compare with the claims made by other people’s religious experiences.

Unit Description

This subject examines various kinds of religious experience. The traditions of these religions and the scholarship on them are considered using simple philosophical techniques. Understanding will be gained by considering the claims of experiences in areas of knowledge and ethics by the different religions.

The subject shall then consider the theories of mysticism and mystical experiences of the different religions. The subject shall conclude by summarizing contemporary writing on the relationship between religious and mystical experience and contemporary science.

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Unit offerings

Face to face: (Every 2nd Year (Even), Semester 1)

Please note

The Unit Offerings listed above are a guide only and the timetable for any year is the final authority. The College may vary offerings based on demand, regulatory requirements, continual improvement processes or other conditions.

This unit may be available in different modes of delivery i.e. online and face-to-face as listed above. The unit content will not differ between these modes of delivery. There will possibly be a difference in the schedule and/or the prescribed assessment tasks, however both will cover and assess the same content.