Religious Language

Question 1

What are the 7 different ways religious Language refer to?

Answer 1

Way to communicate understanding of God (99 names of Allah)
Specialist religious vocab (Eucharist, Messiah,Tawhid,Shirk)
Old fashioned words (thou art, lessed be)
Truth claims (there is no God but Allag

Question 1

What are the 7 different ways religious Language refer to?

Answer 1

Way to communicate understanding of God (99 names of Allah)
Specialist religious vocab (Eucharist, Messiah,Tawhid,Shirk)
Old fashioned words (thou art, blessed be)
Truth claims (there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet, Jesus is alive)
Express feelings and emotions (We are truly sorry and repent our sins)
Performative (I now pronounce husband and wife)
Prescriptive (Honour your father and mother…)

Question 2

1. How can religious lang be a way to communicate understanding of God?

Answer 2

theists always tried to communicate understanding of God through lang

and also try to communicate other aspects of belief that are outside of everyday experience (afterlife, enlightenment, about the nature of the soul)

every religion uses lang as attempt to show supernatural ideas

Question 3

2. Specialist religious vocab/old-fashioned words

Answer 3

Many specialist terms that religious ppl use - may not be understood by people who aren’t part of the religion
For eg; Christianity - ‘Messiah’
one way of understanding r.l is thinking it refers to kinds of words might be found in ‘glossary’ of book about religion
another view it involves old-fashioned words from trad acts of worship