UTS Flashcards
an organized system of ideas about spiritual reality, or supernatural,
along with associated beliefs and ceremonial practices
(Haviland, 2007)
RELIGION
Concern with the sacred, as distinguished form natural material matter. In contrast to religion, this is open individual rather than collective and does not require a distinctive format or traditional organization (Haviland, 2007)
spirituality
A sacred narrative that explains the fundamentals of human existence wherewe and everything in our world came from, why we are here, and where we are going
Myth
A culturally prescribed symbolic act or procedure designed to guide members of a community in an orderly way through personal and collective transitions.
Ritual
Two types of rituals
Calendric, Crisis
This is around you all the time, especially in non-industrialized societies. In a lot of cultures, health, wealth and daily things are related to this
supernatural
Enabling humans to explain the unexplainable
Cognitive Function
Helping individuals to cope up with anxieties that often accompany illness, accidents, death and other misfortunes
Emotional Function
social control, conflict resolution, and building group solidarity
social function
functions of religion
cognitive function, emotional function, social function
is based on the premise that the human person is motivated by a “will to meaning,” an inner pull to find a meaning in life.
Logotherapy
The following list of tenets represents basic principles of logotherapy:
- Life has meaning under all circumstances, even the most miserable ones.
- Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
- We have freedom to find meaning in what we do, and what we experience, or at least in the stand we take when faced with a situation of unchangeable suffering.
According to Frankl, “We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways:
(1) by creating a work or doing a deed;
(2) by experiencing something or encountering someone; and
(3) by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering” and that “everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances”.
Assumptions of logotherapy
- The human being is an entity consisting of body, mind, and spirit.
- Life has meaning under all circumstances, even the most miserable.
- People have a will to meaning.
- People have freedom under all circumstances to activate the will to find meaning.
- Life has a demand quality to which people must respond if decisions are to be meaningful.
- The individual is unique.
identity was created primarily as a result of pre-colonial cultures, colonial influences and foreign traders intermixing and gradually evolving together. In pre-colonial times, the Philippines was a divided set of nations, islands and tribes being ruled by their own kings, chieftains, lakans, rajahs, datus and sultans.
Filipino Identity
list the 5 filipino values
- faith and religiosity
- joy and humour
- family orientation
- hospitality
- ability to survive
The Philippines is approximately 85 percent Christians (mostly Roman Catholic Christians), 10 percent Muslim, and 5 percent ‘other’ religions, including the Taoist-Buddhist religious beliefs of Chinese and the ‘indigenous’ animistic beliefs of some peoples in upland areas that resisted 300 years of Spanish colonial rule. This reflects the Filipinos’ strong faith in God as seen in their various practices.
Faith and religiosity
This famous trait is the ability of Filipinos to find humour in everything. It sheds light on the optimism and positivity of Filipinos in whatever situation they are in so as to remain determined in going through struggles or challenges. It serves as a coping technique, the same way a child who has fallen laughs at himself/herself to hide his/her embarrassment.
Joy and humuor
The basic and most important unit of a Filipino’s life is the family. Unlike in Western countries, young Filipinos who turn 18 are not expected to move out of their parents’ home. When a Filipino’s parents are old and cannot take care of themselves, they are cared for in their children’s homes and are very rarely brought by their children to Homes for the Aged.
family orientation