prefi Flashcards
Are we what we own?
William James
Basic component of material self
Body, clothes, house, car, pets
reflection pf hard work
Material possesions
giving more importance to material possession that intangible values
Materialism
identification with material things begin early in life
Developmental evidence
social system in which consumption is dominated by the consumption of commercial products
Consumer culture
people spend a great deal of time, money, and energy to consume commercial products
Consumerist society
consumption of material goods and services in excess of one’s basic needs
Consumerism
closely tied to materialism
Consumerism
breathe or life force
Spiritus
process through which people seek to discover, hold on to, and when necessary, transform whatever they hold sacred in their lives
Search for the sacred
process through which people seek to discover, hold on to, and when necessary, transform whatever they hold sacred in their lives
Hill and Pargament
Christian Ethics
Peshke
described that the experience if the sacred is characterized by reverence which are intimately connected to god
Christian ethics
an act to realize the ultimate meaning of transcendence and human life
Worship