Religion & Anthropology Studies
Topic:
“Religious Experience.”
Instructions:
1. Write a Essay Paper of 275 word count.
2. Watch Youtube Videos:
Lectures:
Songs:
3. Read the The Varieties of Religious Experience Article [SEE ATTACHMENTS]
A Time Machine in the Desert
Religious Dimensions of the UFO Abductee Experience
The Human Grease Murders
—> https://slate.com/technology/2009/12/a-mysterious-crime-in-peru-revives-a-vampire-legend-that-s-more-than-400-years-old.html
4. Answer the following the questions below:
Using the lecture, readings, and videos as inspiration, please reflect upon a moment in your own life that you might consider to have been a “religious experience.”
“What, according to you, are the major differences between belief in aliens and belief in God (or gods, angels, etc.)?
What part of culture (and the culture/s of the United States, in particular) has made one of these beliefs broadly popular and acceptable, while the other is relegated to the
fringes of society?”
