Spiritual Self Flashcards
The body is believed to be made up of three components:
body, soul, and spirit.
is the physical being that responds to stimuli and communicates with the surroundings;
The body
comprises the emotions and thoughts of a person
The soul
is the intangible aspect that communicates with deities in the spiritual realm.
The spirit
are incomplete without the spirit.
Human beings
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
Religion
“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?
Albert Einstein
Etymologically, the Latin word ? means to bind together. The binding together depends on how people interpret religion.
religare
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.
religion
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
Religion
which is concerned with the sacred in an individual manner. All cultures have religion, spirituality, a worldview, and magic.
spirituality
are people who practice a religion.
Adherents
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.”
William James
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)
Religiousness
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.
Tylor’s view
soul
animism
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)
polytheism
monotheism
Functions of Religion
Stability and cohesion
Social Identity
Collective conscience
Socialization and social control
Meaning and purpose
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.
Stability and cohesion
which function of religion?
– shared religion gives people an identity and social membership.
Social identity
identity and social membership is achieved through?
special naming ceremonies, christening, and baptism in the Christian church. For Durkheim, group solidarity is affirmed and heightened during collective ceremonies and rituals.
In what funtion of religion?
Religion represents the necessary power of the social group over the otherwise isolated, anomic individual.
social identity
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.
integrate
which function of religion?
– religion unites people in moral ways:
Collective conscience
The group affirms its belief in the central values through its commitment to the religious system. These sentiments produce “?”.
also under what function?
value consensus
Collective conscience