Dialogue with Religion Flashcards
The word religo originally meant ____ or ____. It was derived from the word ____, which means to tie back, to tie tight
obligation, bond ; religare
It is the belief in and reverence for a supernatural power recognized as the creator and governor of the universe
Religion
It is the spiritual or emotional attitude of one who recognizes the existence of a superhuman power or powers.
Religion
Who said this?
“Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.”
Immanuel Kant
Who said this?
“Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.”
Harriet Martineau
Who said this?
“Religion is that which grows out of, and gives expression to, experience of the holy in its various aspects.”
Rudolph Otto
Who said this?
“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.”
Emile Durkheim
Who said this?
“Religion is comparable to childhood neurosis.”
Sigmund Freud
Who said this?
“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature… a protest against real suffering… it is the opium of the people… the illusory sun which revolves around man for as long as he does not evolve around himself.”
Karl Marx
Who said this?
“Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of the meaning of life.”
Paul Tillich
Who said this?
“The essence of religion consists in the feeling of absolute dependence.”
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Who said this?
“Religion is a system of beliefs and practices by means of which a group of people struggle with the ultimate problem of human life.”
John Milton Yinger
Religion is the ____ of a culture.
heart
One of religion’s functions is to address issues of ____.
meaning
True or False
The arbitrariness of suffering causes people to want an explanation; the world should make sense, it should have some ultimate meaning.
True
True or False
Religion exists even in the contemporary times
True
____ moves people from one place to another that results to plurality of beliefs, religions and worldviews.
Migration
What function of religion is this?
It is the explanation of the natural and social world.
General
What function of religion is this?
A set of normative rules on how people should behave which enhance solidarity and social order through belief in a shared set of values
Moral