Dimensions Of Religon

Question 1

Social-institutional

Answer 1

Taking care of the needy (social work)
Community based
Colonization of religion: residential schools

Question 2

Doctrinal-philosophical

Answer 2

To teach 
Philosophical: love of wisdom
Metaphysics (beyond the physical) 
Body= physical 
Inside = soul

Question 3

Ethical-legal

Answer 3

Moses and the 10 commandments

Ethical performance of your life will dictate your residence you will inhabit in the after life

Question 4

Experiential- emotional

Answer 4

Formative and reformative
Basing doctrines on experiences 
Emotional = experience while they think of the experiences of their founders 
Emotive analogies= death 
Celebrate or suppress emotion

Question 5

Ritual- practice

Answer 5

Muhammad and the night journey

Pray 5 times

Question 6

Mythical- narrative

Answer 6

Founder has an experience and then becomes a myth

Question 7

Material physical

Answer 7

Satisfy the senses 
Ex: temple, body of Christ (bread), blood of Christ (wine) 
Material - can be proof 
Death artifacts
Mummification

Question 8

(Re) formative - (de) constructive

Answer 8

Start something relatively new

• Mormonism (new)
• Judaism (pioneering religion)
• Hinduism (pioneering religion)

Question 9

Reductionism

Answer 9

Religion can be reduced to humanity’s conceptions of right and wrong

Primitive attempt at controlling our environment

Funeral rites- determined by geography and cultural context

Religion is localized

Durkheim: religion is a social cohesion

Belief in an afterlife is a coping mechanism to deal with loss and fear of death

Question 10

Non-reductionism

Answer 10

Religion can not be reduced to culture
Mircea eliade: religion is unique
Culture may influence religion but it is not entirely connected

Funeral rites -revelation and revelatory powers

Belief in after life is based on revelatory knowledge and mystical experience

Question 11

Ontos

Answer 11

Being