MODULE 2 Flashcards
An organized system of beliefs, ceremonies, and rules used to worship a god or a group of gods.
Religion
Something done with overanxious or scrupulous attention to detail.
Religio
To tie together, to bind fast.
Religare
He believes in spiritual being.
Edward Burnett Taylor
He believes in a propitation or conciliation of the powers superior to man which are believed to control and direct the course of nature and of human life.
James George Frazer
He believes in a body of self-contained acts being themselves the fulfillment of their purpose; an affair of all, in which one takes an active and equivalent part
Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski
He beievesthat religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices reative to sacred things.
David Emile Durkheim
It involved the systematic study of the existence and nature of the divine. It deals with the study of nature and purpose of god that may be undertaken using a particular perspective.
Theology
It deals primarily with issues concerning religion, which includes analysis on the existence of a divine being or on sacred texts.
Philosophy of Religion
It is something an individual can have without being implicated in the ambivalent complexitf human societies and institutions.
Spirituality
Relating or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things
Spiritual
To breathe literally
Spirare
