What Is Religion And Theology?

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"Faith seeking understanding"

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Saint Anselm of Canterbury

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To understand God

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Goal of theology

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"Comparative Religions is the branch of the non-normative study of religions which studies scientifically the similarities, and sameness, and the differences between different religious and religious phenomena so as to reach, not only a general understanding of its object, but also an awareness of the absence or the presence-andin the latter event the kind-of mutual or unilateral influences"

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Frank de Graeve

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To understand the HUMAN BEINGS as they express themselves through religion

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Goal of religious studies

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"A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden-beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them..religion should be an eminently collective thing"

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Emile Durkheim

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"Religious suffering is at the same time an expression of real suffering and a protest of real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, the soul of the soulless conditions. Religion is the opium of the people."

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Karl Marx

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"The belief in spiritual beings"

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E.B. Tylor

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"The feeling of absolute dependence"

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Friedrich Schleiermacher

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"The perception of the infinite under such manifestations as are able to influence the moral character of man"

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Mac Muller

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"The feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they consider the divine"

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William James

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"Every group lived system of thinking and acting, in which the individual finds a frame of orientation and object of devotion"

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Erick Fromm

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"A system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in man by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic"

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Clifford Geertz

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"A sacred conception of the universe through which man overcomes chaos"

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Peter Berger

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"An institution consisting of culturally patterned interaction with culturally patterned superhuman beings"

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M.R. Spiro

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"The experiences, actions, insights, and institutions which give expression to the relationship of human beings to a transcendent reality"

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Catherine Cornille