For example...

For example, the sense of awe that people might feel when thinking about the supernatural, the sense of purpose that individuals might experience when they believe that their life is directed by God, and the sense of guilt persons might feel when they violate religiously taught moral requirements are all aspects of the experiential dimension of religious feeling. Religious knowledge is the intellectual dimension of religious commitment - what a person knows about the belief.

Common sense suggests that the belief dimension has two simple categories - those who believe and those who do not - but it might also be conceived as a continuum. Similarly, the knowledge dimension stretches along a continuum of possibilities that range from those who know a great deal about a particular religion to those who know absolutely nothing. Crossing religious belief categories with religious knowledge categories generates some intriguing portrayals.

For example, consider the knowledgeable believer and the ignorant believer. Imagine also someone who has “blind faith” - that is,…