Introduction

Question 1

Cultural Model

Answer 1

Core assumptions (middle)
- Existential assumptions (is it real? study of being/existence)
- Normative Assumptions (Is it right? Governs society, study of ethics)
belief
Behavior
material goods

Question 1

Where do we see worldview played out?

Answer 1

The 5 institutions of society (GREEF)
1. Government (organization of human groups)
2. Religion
3. Education
4. Economics
5. Family

1&2 Most important (organization of seen and unseen world, part of peoples core)

Question 2

Structured Religion

Answer 2

1. Institutionalized (identifiable center of faith in a community, marker of worship)
2. Ritualized (method of how you do it, connecting to something bigger than themselves)
3. Hierarchicalized (how people are organized)
4. Numerically Definitive (describing worldwide trend of people, tells impact of faith)
5. Codified (has printed/written text)
6. Historical (has starting point, founder)

Question 3

Unstructured Religions

Answer 3

Primal (first)
Animistic (animated/active)
Preliterate
Oral traditions, no text

Question 4

What religion is…

Answer 4

1. Most integral part of culture (core)
2. An answer to ultimate questions
3. Code of conduct (obligations and tabus)
4. A link to supernatural (ex. mana)
5. An invasion of the “sacred” into the profane (ex. using God’s name in vain)

Question 5

What religion does…

Answer 5

1. explains life
2. validates and affirms self (how we are adopted into a community, identity)
3. Provide social solidarity (marriage market, share core values)
4. educates and enculturates (submerge in culture)
   - Transgenerational transmission
5. Integrates life (glues people together psychologically)

Question 6

Worldviews (East and West)

Answer 6

Material vs spiritual world
Linear vs contextual logic
Segmented vs unified world
Absolutism vs relativism
Knowledge vs wisdom
Individualism vs interdependence

Question 7

West –> Material

Answer 7

What is real, what can be seen
Materialism = what can be touched, smelt, etc. is what matters
acquisitiveness - possessions, need of material things
hedonism - pleasure

Question 8

East –> spirituality

Answer 8

limiting yourself if you are just materialistic what is inside matters more
spirit is big, body is low
asceticism - treat body harshly to open up the spirit
non-acquisitiveness - more is having less

Question 9

West –> Linear

Answer 9

Lifespan from A to B

Question 10

East –> contextual

Answer 10

born, die, reborn
Lifetime never stops - “next life”
A to B to A

Question 11

West –> Segmented world

Answer 11

Divide and conquer

Question 12

East –> unified world

Answer 12

to embrace opposites to be part of the whole (death is also seen as rebirth)

Question 13

West –> absolutism

Answer 13

one piece that fits in the puzzle
Skepticism in spiritual things
T and F

Question 14

East –> Relativism

Answer 14

there might be several ways to solve a problem
allowance for supernatural events and ideas

Question 15

West –> Knowledge

Answer 15

knowledge is more important than wisdom
Technological, young people are valued

Question 16

East –> Wisdom

Answer 16

Wisdom is greater than knowledge
older people are valued

Question 17

West –> Individualism

Answer 17

self interested, independence is valued, looking after oneself

Question 18

East –> Interdependence

Answer 18

Competition in larger group instead of by yourself
Families, groups, companies

Question 19

Monotheism

Answer 19

one god

Question 20

Polytheism

Answer 20

Many gods

Question 21

Pantheism

Answer 21

God is in everything

Question 22

Revealed truth vs pursuit of truth

Answer 22

W
God speaking directly to people through text or spoken (sermons, gatherings)

E
devotees to worship to seek truth
God doesn’t talk to us it is others who have gone before us

Question 23

Guarantee vs hope of salvation

Answer 23

W
you will be saved
favor with God, God’s grace
you can get there

E
hope you are going to make it but you are not sure until you are reincarnated (transmigration) - reborn or not

Question 24

Supreme vs relative value of human life

Answer 24

W
life is over once die
linear so there is more value (graves)

E
reincarnated
Karma
hope that they will go on to a better life when die

Question 25

Natural vs supernatural reasons for misfortune

Answer 25

W
decrease health b/c of sickness

E
the gods are mad at you

Question 26

Individual vs family choices for religious allegiance

Answer 26

W
it is an individual choice

E
Choices influenced by family
owe family

Question 27

Holy days vs holism in practice

Answer 27

W
certain practices on certain days

E
religious practices everyday and everything they do
everything is holy