CHAPTER 9 Flashcards
- the most enduring and intimate part of the self
SPIRITUAL SELF
- one’s wishes, things that we want to see and achieve in our lives
Person’s Will
- the person’s ability to distinguish what is important and what is not.
Values
- the perceived strengths of a person, the things that they have confidence in doing and believe to have a certain level of mastery of.
Intelligence and Abilities
- the definition of what is right and wrong, distinguishing the things that are acceptable for a person, the society and at the same time the determination of the possible effects of their actions to themselves, their environment and other people.
Morals
refers to beliefs and behaviors related to supernatural beings and powers.
Religion
refers to the collective body of ideas that members of a culture generally share concerning the ultimate shape and substance of their reality.
Worldview
concern with the sacred in an individual manner.
Spirituality
is an organized system of ideas about spiritual reality, or the supernatural, along with associated beliefs and ceremonial practices (Haviland, 2007).
Religion
A sacred narrative that explains the fundamentals of human existence—where we and everything in our world came from, why we are here, and where we are going.
Myth
Concern with the sacred, as distinguished from material matters. In contrast to religion, spirituality is often individual rather than collective and does not require a distinctive format or traditional organization (Haviland, 2007).
Spiritualty
The ____________ is around you all of the time, especially in non- industrialized societies In a lot of cultures, health, wealth and daily things are related to supernatural.
Supernatural
Culturally prescribed symbolic act or procedure designed to guide members of a community in an orderly way through personal and collective transitions. Two types: calendric and crisis.
Rituals
Enabling humans to explain the unexplainable phenomena.
Cognitive Function
Social control, conflict resolution and building group solidarity
Social Function
referred to as kaluluwa by the Tagalogs or dungan by the Ilonggos comes from the root word duwa, two.
Soul
Helping individuals to cope up with anxieties that often accompany illness, accidents, death and other misfortunes
Emotional FUNCTION
The __________ is not seen by the human eye, it takes on a different form. For instance, it can be in a form an insect or a small animal such as lizard.
dungan
GENERAL FEATURES OF HARANG RITUAL
- purification of the place
- invocation of spirits
- explanation of motivation, request & entreaty
- offering communion
- feast
- Two dimensions: Human body and Spiritual
- Soul referred to as kaluluwa by the Tagalogs or dungan by the Ilonggos comes from the root word duwa, two.
- The dungan is not seen by the human eye, it takes on a different form. For instance, it can be in a form an insect or a small animal such as lizard.
- The Bisayans believe that the dungan leaves the body while person is asleep.
- Travelling dungan outside the body must be free from accidents such as getting trapped in a jar.
- Only when the soul has safely reunited with the body, the person will be awake.
- Dungan is also connoted as “willpower”. If a person has a
strong willpower, is it said to have a strong dungan (Magos, 1986).
The concept of “Dungan” – Spirit or Soul
- Rituals in the Philippines are quite common.
- Visayan fishing villages practice the offering ritual called harang.
- A local shaman invokes sea-spirits.
- There are several stages of the ritual purification, invocation, entreaty and feast which cover community life such as harvest, operation of fishing boats and cases of illnesses (Kawada, 1996).
Rituals and Ceremonies
Visayan fishing villages practice the offering ritual called
.
harang
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Finding and Creating Meaning in Life
- Viktor Frankl, the originator of Logotherapy, indicates how his involvement in quest for the significance of life in a Nazi death camp changed his viewpoint of the world.
- Frankl states that we can’t abstain from affliction, yet we can pick how to manage it and discover significance in it.
- Frankl’s hypothesis questions the thoughts of Freud, who trusted the significance of life was to seek after joy.
- Frankl trusted that the motivation behind life isolates the person from creatures as well as enables us to survive troublesome circumstances.
- His theory holds three primary human capabilities called as noological possibilities: self-detachment, self-transcendence, and the ability to “spiritually be in touch” with something or someone independent of spatio-temporal dimensions. To complement these capabilities, he identified three postulates.
- invocation of spirits
pagtawag
- purification of the place
tuob
- explanation of motivation, request & entreaty
pangamuyo
- offering communion
bayad
- feast
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