Religious experience is a sum of religious feelings percept, evaluated, and transformed by a subject from the religious point of view. This sum is important for formation and development of the persons' religious world outlook. The study of the religious experience is important because it is a universal phenomenon and the depth of it does not depend on the level of civilization development. In Afro-Christianity the messianic movements play a specifi c role. The intensive religious experience of these movements' founders (e.g., William Wade Harris, André Grenard Matsoua and others) has become a source and powerful stimulus for the spiritual, social, cultural and legal changes. The missionary work of prophet Wade Harris has led to mass oblivion of the external practices characteristic of the traditional African beliefs all over the Ivory coast. Harrism has embraced dozens of ethnic groups, chiefl y, due to the immanent idea of unity amidst variety. So, there are grounds to argue that one person's individual religious experience has changed the life and world outlook of tens of thousands of people and has transformed into a socially signifi cant phenomenon - revelation for many ethnic groups. Here we deal with the phenomenon of wide recognition of the personal religious experience by society. This phenomenon stimulated religious enthusiasm of coreligionists and was a powerful factor of the social activities of the masses.