Religion Flashcards
“to tie” or “to be bind fast”
RELIGARE
Religious Man
Homo religiosus
From a Latin word that means “worldly”
SECULARIZATION
SAECULUM
Religion means
• A system of beliefs
•bredge that allows humans to approach the divine
•ligitimates social institutions
•provides the ultimate defined reality by legitimating marginal situations
Substantial meaning of religion according to Edward Taylor
To explain dreams, visions, unconscious, and death
functional definition of religion according to Milton Yinger
Does not necessarily supernatural, a system of beliefs and practices which a group struggles with ultimate problems of human life.
Types of religious organizations…
1) Church
2) Sect
3) Denomination
4) Cult
The Bureaucratic organization, cloness to elites they have passive members, and a vision for the whole society
Church
This is a national or state religion. They automatically become members when they are born.
Ecclesia
A large bereauceatic religious org closely integrated into the large society
Denomination
Small religious group that is not close to a larger society. It grows to a larger group
Sect
Founder of INC
Felix Manalo 1914
A small religious group that have odds with norms and values. A non traditional org that takes doctrines from many sources
Cult
Syncretism
Combining doctrines and practices to make a new one.
The idea of Humanism by
Francesco Petrach
God had given human their vast intellectual and creative potential to be used to their fullest
