The Positive and Negative Effects of Religion Flashcards
help advance social harmony by assimilating and stabilizing cultures and nations
Religion Promotes Social Harmony
Religion provides divine authority to ethical and moral principles which help promote unity among people
Religion Promotes Social Harmony
functions were to intercede between the deities and people; to continue the rituals; to play as healers; and to act as cultural leaders of the community.
Babaylanes or Catalones
refers to the attitude of obedience, devotion, and care of one’s parents and elder family members.
Xiao, or filial piety
Ahimsa – non-violence
Jainism
one is able to distinguish right from wrong, good from evil.
Provides a system of reward and punishment that administers and standardizes people’s behavior in society.
Religion Provides Moral Values
It can be very effective in lobbying and campaigning for certain social issues using its own moral teachings as the basis of argument.
Religion Provides Social Change
advocates the belief that nonviolence of the mind can lead to the realization of the real nature of an evil situation and that by refusing to cooperate with evil, truth can be asserted.
Satyagraha – Ghandi
Religion provides answers for phenomena and questions that science or reason cannot explain.
Belief in afterlife
Religion Reduces Fear of the Unknown
follow their dharma (moral and social obligations”
- reap good karma (moral consequences of one’s act)
- attain moksha, or the reunion of Brahman or universal soul and atman or individual soul
Hindus
- dying in Jihad (a struggle against unbelievers)
- performing the hajj (Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca)
Muslims
that each and everyone has a mission to fulfill, and it is up to them to fathom what their missions in life are.
Religion Gives Positive Goals in Life
religion provides people with personal identity as part of a group with similar worldviews, beliefs, values, practices, and lifestyles. sense of security
Religion Gives People a Sense of Belonging
- Seva (Sewa) from the word Karseva which means “selfless service.”
- encouraged by their Guru (Guru Granth Saib)
Sikhism
- often favoring men
- political and social structures
Religion Affirms Social Hierarchy
- this religion emphasizes on the relations between the ruler and the subject
Confucianism
after turning people against themselves, turn people against each other
Religious fanaticism
“right religion”
the outcast or pariahs in India
Religion Causes Discrimination
In Palestine, the Jews are in conflict with the Muslims; in Kashmir, it is the Muslims against Hindus; in Sudan, it is the Muslims opposite Christians and animists;
Religion Triggers Conflicts and Fights
Karl Marx: “religion is the opium of the masses.”
- the bourgeoisie keeps the proletariat in control through religion
Religion As An Economic Tool for Exploiting the Masses
Catholic Church used to teach that the world is flat
- the earth is the center of the solar system (Ptolemaic theory)
- disapproval against reproductive health programs
- Religion-based mortuary practices
Religion Impedes the Scientific Success and Development
religion should evolve and learn to adapt to the ever changing world
. Religion Obstructs the Use of Reason
the ancient practice of boring holes in the human skull, a surgical procedure performed on epileptics and the mentally ill, with the belief that through the hole the evil spirit will leave the person
Trepanning
the killing of oneself as a form of sacrifice, originally referred to as the act of setting oneself on fire. But now it refers to a much wider range of suicidal choices such as leaping off a cliff, starvation, or ritual removing of the guts (also known as seppuku).
- used as a form of political protest or martyrdom
Self-immolation
set himself on fire in the middle of a street in South Vietnam
Thich Quang Duc (Vietnam in 1963
the practice of self-immolation of a widow on her husband’s funeral pyre
- believed to have started among the ruling class or rajputs in India
- become a manifestation of wifely devotion
- outlawed by the British rulers in 1829
Sati (Suttee)
burnt herself to death on the funeral pyre of her husband Prem Narayan in Tuslipar village in the central state of Madhya Pradesh
Janakrani
refers to the Roman Catholic Church groups charged with subduing heresy from around 1184
- a response to large popular movements in Europe considered heretical or profane to Christianity, particularly;
Inquisition
(a Christian dualist movement which espoused the idea of two gods, one being good and the other evil)
Catharism
(a Protestant Christian movement which advocated that apostolic poverty is the way to perfection)
Waldensians
become associated with the word “torture”
Ad exstirpanda
wherein the hands were bound behind the back with a rope, and the accused was suspended this way, dislocating the joints painfully in both arms
strappado
February 27, 2002, a train was set on fire in which 59 people, including 25 women and 15 children, were killed
happened inside the Sabarmati
Express train near the Godhra railway station in the Indian state of Gujarat
mostly Hindu pilgrims and activists returning from the holy city of Ayodhya after a religious ceremony at the disputed Babri Masjid site
The Godhra Train Incident in 2002
