Theme 6 Flashcards
People form ___________ around religion.
Communities
What percentage of people attend religious services other than on special occasions such as: weddings, funerals or baptisms?
63% of the 1500 people surveyed got to mass at least once a year other then for special ocassions
Anthropologists believe that humans had come from the?
African continent
Anthropologists believe the religion call on something or someone that is of a?
Higher or deeper understanding then ourselves
84% believe that God is?
Real and exists
Religious symbols are?
A link between us and the sacred
Religion is a?
System of symbols and rituals that we form powerful beliefs, meanings and practices around.
Religious rituals are what?
It is our capacity to enter into the sacred realm; but the sacred approaches us first.
A liturgy in the catholic faith is?
The act of official worship
Transcendence is?
The idea if God being beyond our usual physical limitations and experiences.
Secular is being?
Worldly, not religious or sacred; living in the world
