Lesson 1 Flashcards
Is a collection of
cultural systems, belief
systems, and worldviews
that relate humanity to
spirituality and,
sometimes, to moral
values.
Religion
Many religions
have narratives, symbols,
traditions, and sacred
histories that are
intended to give meaning
to life or to explain the
origin of life or the
universe.
T or F
True
What is the Latin word of Religion?
Ligare
It is a belief in the divine.
Religion
RELIGION IS CLASSICALLY
UNDERSTOOD TO
MEAN THE LINKING
OF HUMAN AND
DIVINE.
T or F
T
3 ELEMENTS THAT MAKE
SOMETHING A RELIGION?
B.R.E.
*Beliefs
*Rituals
*Ethics
*BELIEFS give religion its
MIND
*RITUALS give religion its
SHAPE
*ETHICS give religion its
HEART
Eyy muna eyy
*BELIEFS give religion its
MIND
*RITUALS give religion its
SHAPE
*ETHICS give religion its
HEART
Eyy muna eyy
THEISTIC GOD, the concept of a being which is
There are 4.
✔purely spiritual
✔all good
✔all knowing
✔all powerful.
It’s a belief in the existence of the theistic God.
Theism
Disbelief the existence of theistic
God or any divine being.
Atheism
Neither belief nor disbelief in
the existence of theistic God/any divine being.
Agnosticism
Belief that inanimate objects (such as statues or mountains) have souls.
Animism
It’s a belief in the multiplicity of gods.
(Ex. Hinduism)
Polytheism
A belief that accepts the existence of many gods but worships one god as supreme.
Ex. Ancient Greek-Zeus
Henotheism
monotheistic belief in a god who set the universe in motion and thereafter left it alone. Does not intervene in its workings or in human affairs.
Deism
belief in one god, but not necessarily the theistic God.
Monotheism
monotheistic belief that equates God with the forces and laws of the universe.
Believes that God is the universe.
Pantheism
The ideas that make any religion what it is.
Beliefs
the most important element because they give rise to and shape the ethics and the rituals of a faith.
Belief
It puts a religion’s beliefs in an order that people
can understand.
Theology
These are two religions that have a long tradition of theologies that are complex and sophisticated.
Christianity and Islam
These are two religions that use stories, not systematic theologies, to convey their beliefs.
Judaism and Hinduism
Zoroastrianism and Buddhism, combine both.
True
These two religions are very ancient and developed before contact with the Greeks, who first
organized beliefs into a system.
Judaism and Hinduism
In the ancient faiths, stories convey beliefs, and the impulse
to yank the beliefs out of the stories and put them down in
some systematic order would have been an insult to the
sacred texts.
True
HOW THEY DEFINE MEMBERSHIP:
▪ Tribal religions define members of the faith not by belief but by blood.
▪ Many Native American religions are like Judaism in this respect.
▪ You have to be born into the tribe or culture in order to share the faith of the tribe.
▪ If you’re born into a tribal religion, what you believe doesn’t matter very much; you’re a member whether you like it or not and whether you believe in the religion or not.
The Hebrew Bible is also called
Tanakh
