3.1: search for meaning (basics)

Question 1

nine aspects of religion.

Answer 1

beliefs, ethics, rituals, social structures, spiritual experiences, sacred stories, symbols, SPAT (spaces, places, artefacts, times), texts.

Question 2

relationship between beliefs and ethics.

Answer 2

beliefs may be used to guide communal and individual morals.

Question 3

relationship between beliefs and rituals.

Answer 3

rituals can strengthen beliefs by showing dedication through repetition.

Question 4

relationship between beliefs and social structures.

Answer 4

participating in a role of a religious social structure can help strengthen one’s beliefs.

Question 5

relationship between beliefs and spiritual experiences.

Answer 5

beliefs may be strengthened or weakened by spiritual experiences.

Question 6

relationship between beliefs and symbols.

Answer 6

symbols can show one’s beliefs to others, as well as act as a reminder of specific beliefs.

Question 7

relationship between beliefs and sacred stories.

Answer 7

beliefs can be passed down through story.

Question 8

relationship between beliefs and spaces, places, artefacts, times (SPAT).

Answer 8

spaces, places, artefacts and times can show one’s beliefs to others, and act as a reminder of specific beliefs.

Question 9

relationship between beliefs and texts.

Answer 9

texts can teach and reassure beliefs. beliefs may be codified into religious texts.

Question 10

relationship between ethics and rituals.

Answer 10

religious ethics can determine which rituals are appropriate; religious rituals can determine which ethics are appropriate.

Question 11

relationship between ethics and social structures.

Answer 11

higher levels of social structures have the ability to create or reestablish religious morals and ethics.

Question 12

relationship between ethics and spiritual experiences.

Answer 12

spiritual experiences can help adherents determine their individual or communal moral compass.

Question 13

relationship between ethics and symbols.

Answer 13

symbols may be reflective of individual or communal ethics.

Question 14

relationship between ethics and sacred stories.

Answer 14

sacred stories may teach ethics and morals down generations.

Question 15

relationship between ethics and spaces, places, artefacts, times (SPAT).

Answer 15

the symbolic nature of S,P,A,T allows the reminder and reinforcement of religious ethics and morals.

Question 16

relationship between ethics and texts.

Answer 16

texts can help adherents form their moral compass. ethics may be codified into religious texts.

Question 17

relationship between rituals and social structures.

Answer 17

rituals may vary across social structures depending on the hierarchical role.

Question 18

relationship between rituals and spiritual experiences.

Answer 18

participation in rituals can bring about spiritual experiences.

Question 19

relationship between rituals and symbols.

Answer 19

traditional rituals may fall out of modern use and be recycled as religious symbols.

Question 20

relationship between rituals and sacred stories.

Answer 20

sacred stories may help explain the significance of certain rituals.

Question 21

relationship between rituals and spaces, places, artefacts, times (SPAT).

Answer 21

SPAT may be utilised as part of a ritual, deepening the significance of the practice.

Question 22

relationship between rituals and texts.

Answer 22

texts may guide adherents in the identifying and explaining of certain rituals.

Question 23

relationship between social structures and spiritual experiences.