Spiritual Self

Question 1

The body is believed to be made up of three components:

Answer 1

body, soul, and spirit.

Question 2

is the physical being that responds to stimuli and communicates with the surroundings;

Answer 2

The body

Question 3

comprises the emotions and thoughts of a person

Answer 3

The soul

Question 4

is the intangible aspect that communicates with deities in the spiritual realm.

Answer 4

The spirit

Question 5

are incomplete without the spirit.

Answer 5

Human beings

Question 6

teaches us the value of a higher being who develops in us our morality and con science. We must explore how to nourish the spiritual self through our religious beliefs and practices

Answer 6

Religion

Question 7

“When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all.

They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.”

who said this?

Answer 7

Albert Einstein

Question 8

Etymologically, the Latin word ? means to bind together. The binding together depends on how people interpret religion.

Answer 8

religare

Question 9

Refers to the beliefs and behaviors related to supernatural beings and powers.

Notice that this definition does not specify a belief in God, because not all these have that belief.

Answer 9

religion

Question 10

It is narrower than a worldview or cosmology, which is a culture’s understanding of how the universe came into being, why it is the way it is, and the place of people in it.

It also differs from spirituality

Answer 10

Religion

Question 11

which is concerned with the sacred in an individual manner. All cultures have religion, spirituality, a worldview, and magic.

Answer 11

spirituality

Question 12

are people who practice a religion.

Answer 12

Adherents

Question 13

he defined personal religion as the “feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider divine.”

Answer 13

William James

Question 14

the degree by which one is affiliated with an organized religion in terms of the person’s participation in the prescribed rituals and practices, connection with its beliefs, and involvement with its community of believers (Santrock, 2014)

Answer 14

Religiousness

Question 15

There have been numerous attempts at explaining the origins of religion. One of the earliest was ?? that people needed to explain the differences between the living and the dead. From this came the idea of a?.

He named this approach ?, a belief that a soul or spirit inhabits all living objects, including plants, animals, and even minerals.

Answer 15

Tylor’s view

soul

animism

Question 16

Tyler believes that eventually, the idea of a soul became ? , or a belief in many deities, which eventually shifted to ?, or a belief in one deity. There are still cultures that practice each of these types of religions. (Ang, 2018)

Answer 16

polytheism

monotheism

Question 17

Functions of Religion

Answer 17

Stability and cohesion
Social Identity
Collective conscience
Socialization and social control
Meaning and purpose

Question 18

which function of religion?

shared religion binds people closely together:

a. Religions form a balanced and cohesive moral community. They protect individuals from anomie, alienation, and the threats of disruptive mass movements and so maximize the individual’s potential for happiness.

b. Shared religious experiences provide the social cement for group unity and consensus.

Answer 18

Stability and cohesion

Question 19

which function of religion?

– shared religion gives people an identity and social membership.

Answer 19

Social identity

Question 20

identity and social membership is achieved through?

Answer 20

special naming ceremonies, christening, and baptism in the Christian church. For Durkheim, group solidarity is affirmed and heightened during collective ceremonies and rituals.

Question 21

In what funtion of religion?

Religion represents the necessary power of the social group over the otherwise isolated, anomic individual.

Answer 21

social identity

Question 22

Religion serves to ? the person into society. It is functionally useful for people to grow up identifying with a particular place or nation to strengthen a person’s sense of national commitment, especially if either religion or nation comes under threat.

Answer 22

integrate

Question 23

which function of religion?

– religion unites people in moral ways:

Answer 23

Collective conscience

Question 24

The group affirms its belief in the central values through its commitment to the religious system. These sentiments produce “?”.

also under what function?

Answer 24

value consensus

Collective conscience

Question 25

Religion thereby generates and maintains the collective conscience. This was observable in its effects and was open to scientific study. Other social effects could be studied and analyzed by collecting relevant statistics through ?

Answer 25

careful observation and recording or other experimental methods.

Question 26

? saw society as a ? whose members were socialized into accepting appropriate patterns of behavior over time. This process is unending since people are always being integrated into new groups, adopting new norms, absorbing new values, and adopting new patterns of behavior.

Answer 26

Durkheim

moral community

Question 27

An ? is only possible when people share moral values; in this way, society becomes embedded in the individual.

Answer 27

orderly social life

Question 28

which function of religion?

– religion represents the value system of the society:

Answer 28

Socialization and social control

Question 29

It is a conservative force that contributes to moral and wider social order and stability.

Answer 29

religion in representing the value system of society

(socialization and social control)

Question 30

Religious beliefs give many cultural norms ?

e.g., the Ten Commandments provide a prescription for an orderly lifestyle. By promoting such values through family, school, and church, the process of socialization occurs.

Answer 30

sacred legitimacy.

Question 31

Appropriate modes of thinking and behaving are controlled in ways which will promote a good, orderly society.

which function of religion?

Answer 31

socialization and social control

Question 32

which function of religion?

religion gives meaning and purpose to people’s lives

Answer 32

Meaning and purpose–

Question 33

In the face of death, disease, and the hazards of everyday living, people are vulnerable to all kinds of disasters beyond their control. Religious beliefs offer people ? in times of crisis.

which function of religion?

Answer 33

comfort

meaning and purpose

Question 34

It is the institution which gives people the strength to continue and promote the long-term maintenance of society as a result.

Answer 34

religion giving life meaning and purpose