The Reflection Of The Five Types Of World Religions

There have been are a vast amount of world religions discussed in this course. Two types of world religions are classical world religion and primal and ancient indigenous religion. However, there are a multitude of different religions around the world. These religions include Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. Christianity and Islam are two of largest religions and Hinduism follows up as the third largest. Throughout the course we learned how each religion functions and their beliefs. By beliefs, I am meaning how a person feels about worship of some divine spiritual power. There are various beliefs such as the few discussed in class, being Henotheism, Monotheism, Deism, Dualism, Pantheism/Monism, and Panentheism. These beliefs are based upon someone’s belief in a god or goddess. Throughout the course our main purpose was to be able to describe “Religion”. Religion focuses on the belief in a God and the divining power or your belief in a supernatural or spiritual force, but what exactly is religion? Religion can be described as the belief and worship of a superhuman controlling power. Although religion has been around for thousands of years, the efforts in finding out the origin of religion was a failure, only because the theories were unsupportive and contradicting. Archeology

Religious experiences are direct contact with a divine or supernatural reality. There are five types of religious experiences we discussed in class being visionary, subtle, numinous, mystical, and possessory. Visionary experiences are seeing or hearing a divine figure. Subtle meaning “confirming” are general but direct awareness of a divine presence. Numinous are experiences of attraction or repulsion at an awesome power. Mystical experiences are usually oneness, or unity with the divine like communion. The fifth religious experience we discussed is possessory which are experiences when a divine power acts upon your