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Refers to a set of principles that help in interpreting our daily reality |
Belief System |
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BELIEF SYSTEMS ARE SHAPED BY (3) |
1. How we know things 2. How we were raised 3. Peer pressure among others |
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Is the mental model of reality that signifies a comprehensive framework of ideas and attitudes about the world |
World view |
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Collection of all belief systems |
World view |
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Religion comes from what latin word.. which means? |
Religare or religio which means to tie or to bind |
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_____ and ______ can be joined together |
Humanity and divinity |
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"Re" in religion means? |
Again |
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"lig" in religion means? |
"To join" or "To connect" |
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Relegare means? |
"to tread carefully" which indicates that humans should be careful when dealing with the divine |
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The 4 basic religious concepts |
1. Theistic God 2. Theism 3. Atheism 4. Agnosticism |
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The concept of being purely spiritual, all good, all knowing, and all powerful. |
Theistic God |
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Belief in the existence of the Theistic God |
Theism |
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Disbelief in Theistic God and any divine being |
Atheism |
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Neither belief nor disbelief in the existence of Theistic God |
Agnosticism |
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Types of Theism |
1. Animism 2. Polytheism 3. Henotheism 4. Dualism 5. Monotheism 6. Deism 7. Pantheism |
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Belief that inanimate objects have souls. |
Animism |
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Belief in a multiplicity of gods. |
Polytheism |
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A polytheistic belief that each nation or country has its own god. |
Henotheism |
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A polytheistic belief in two conflicting deities, one good and the other evil. |
Dualism |
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The belief in one god. |
Monotheism |
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The monotheistic belief in a god who set the universe in motion and thereafter left it alone. |
Deism |
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The monotheistic belief that god is identical with nature as a whole. |
Pantheism |
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2 types of revelations |
1. Special revelation 2. General revelation |
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The divine revelation to humans is specific in content, and for a specific audience. |
Special revelation |
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The divine revelation to humans is general in content, and for a general audience. |
General revelation |
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Elements of Religion (7) |
1. Belief Systems or World View 2. Community 3. Central Stories/Myths 4. Rituals 5. Ethics 6. Characteristic Emotional Experience 7. Material Expression |
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Many beliefs that fit together in a system to make sense of the universe and our place in it. |
Belief Systems or World View |
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The belief system is shared, and its ideals are practiced by a group. |
Community |
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Stories that help explain the beliefs of a group: these are told over and over again. |
Central stories/myths |
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They may or may not be true. |
Central stories/myths |
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Beliefs are explained, taught, and made real through ceremonies. |
Rituals |
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Rules about how to behave. |
Ethics |
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Might also be seen as guidelines created by the group over time. |
Ethics |
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Often thought to have come from a deity |
Ethics |
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Most religions share emotions such as awe, mystery, guilt, joy, devotion, conversion, inner peace, etc. |
Characteristic Emotional Experience |
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Characteristic Emotional Experience |
awe, mystery, guilt, joy, devotion, conversion, inner peace (AMGJDCI) |
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Religions use things to perform rituals or to express or represent beliefs, such as: statues, paintings, music, flowers, incense, clothes, architecture, and specific sacred locations. |
Material Expression |
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Religions use things to perform rituals or to express or represent beliefs, such as? |
statues, paintings, music, flowers, incense, clothes, architecture, and specific sacred locations. (SPMFICAS) |
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It is described as the quality or state of being concerned with religion or religious matters. |
Spirituality |
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It may also be put as a deep sense of aliveness and interconnectedness with nature, the divine, or the supernatural. |
Spirituality |
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Spirituality (derived from, root word which means) |
from the Latin word “spiritus”, its root word is “spirare” which means “to breathe” |
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ELEMENTS OF SPIRITUALITY |
1. Affectional 2. Devotional 3. Intellectual 4. Moral |