Title: Imagination
Headings: 
Ways of Knowing: IMAGINATION
Possible essay questions:
Imagination
'I have a dream.'
Imagine...
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Too little imagination?
Too much imagination?

Content: Yet, even if you feel that religion represents reality and truth, you will have to resort to imagination to grasp the finesses which religious knowledge systems have to offer. Morality plays an important role within religion and to gain knowledge in the field of ethics, we need imagination. After all, to empathise you need to be able to imagine. We also need imagination to interpret religious texts, to make religious knowledge our own and to conceptualise the bigger things in life such as death, the reason we live, and our place in the universe. In this context, it is worth exploring the role of metaphor and the figurative use of language within religious texts, creation stories and oral traditions. So can imagination give us knowledge which other ways of knowing can't? Imagination conveys truths that reality hides and stimulate us to create new knowledge. Many scientific discoveries would not have been made without imagination. Problem solving is often the result of creative imagination as well. In the field of politics and ethics, imagination can lead to the 'discoveries' of dystopian and utopian realities.