DLA-1-Religion-in-a-Different-Light.2.pdf

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1. Order and
Chaos

2. What is religion?
What is the meaning of …
‘Let there be light,
and there was light.’

3. In the beginning God
created the heavens
and the earth. Now
the earth was
formless and empty,
darkness was over the
surface of the deep,
and the Spirit of God
was hovering over the
waters. And God said,
‘Let there be light,
and there was light.’”
Genesis 1 -3

4. “Solve it before
it happens.
Order it before
chaos
emerges.”
Laozi

5. “Your purpose
in life is to find
purpose.”
Buddha

6. Here is where your presentation begins
Religion
in a
Different Light

7. Table of
Contents
Introduction
Religion and the Social
Sciences
Religion as a Social
Reality
02
03
04
Open Forum and Assesment
01

8. Defining religion is not an easy
task. It might be straight forward
but how we define the concept
may in fact exclude groups
that others might consider
religious.
What Is
Religion?

9. Defining Religion as a Social Reality
I. Substantive II. Functional
TWO WAYS

10. I. Substantive
•concerned with what constitutes religion. In this sense,
religion involves belief and practices that assumes the
presence of supernatural beings (Davie, 2007).
•At a quick glance, this minimum definition seems most
appropriate. But it is limited too. Supernatural beings do not
play any prominent role in Confucianism or in the more
philosophical branches of Buddhism

11. I. Substantive
•concerned with what constitutes religion. In this sense,
religion involves belief and practices that assumes the
presence of supernatural beings (Davie, 2007).
•At a quick glance, this minimum definition seems most
appropriate. But it is limited too. Supernatural beings
do not play any prominent role in Confucianism or in
the more philosophical branches of Buddhism
Edward Burnett Tylor
•He argued that religion was the
attempt of primitive human beings to
understand their inexplicable individual
experiences (Turner, 1991).

12. I. Substantive
•concerned with what constitutes religion. In this sense,
religion involves belief and practices that assumes the
presence of supernatural beings (Davie, 2007).
•At a quick glance, this minimum definition seems most
appropriate. But it is limited too. Supernatural beings
do not play any prominent role in Confucianism or in
the more philosophical branches of Buddhism
Edward Burnett Tylor
•He argued that religion was the attempt of primitive
human beings to understand their inexplicable
individual experiences (Turner, 1991).

13. II. Functional
•concerned with the social consequences.
•does not assume any belief in super natural
beings. Instead , it has to do with the
sociological dimension of belief and practices
in the context of an organization.

14. Emile Durkheim
The French sociologist Emile Durkheim (2001)
had a famous definition of religion as a
“unified system of belief and practices relative to
sacred things, that is to say, things set apart
and forbidden-belief and practices which unite
into one single moral community.”
II. Functional
•concerned with the social consequences.
•does not assume any belief in super natural beings.
Instead , it has to do with the sociological dimension of
belief and practices in the context of an organization

15. The Social Scientific Perspective
Religious text is
interpreted in different
waysin different contexts.
Social Construct
The suspensionof the
belief in the Divine.
Methodological Atheism
Social Phenomenon
Not simply the pursuit of
particular beliefs or
practices as professed
and prescribed by
religious leaders.

16. Religion as a Social Reality
In 4 Respects
a collective
phenomenon
I.
involves a body of
beliefs and moral
prescription
III.
concerned with ordering
how we behave in
relation to sacred and/or
the supernatural
II.
expects its followers to
follow a set of
practicesthat relates to
sacred
IV.

17. I. Religion
As a Collective Phenomenon
Apart from receiving
religious instruction, it is
collective formation, the
individual also feels some
emotional
identification with the
religious group.
An individual who
professes a religion is
typically part of
religious organization
or community.
In as much as faith is
personal, it is also a
private matter.

18. II. Religion
As Behavior in Relation to the Supernatural.
Being quiet whenever
entering a temple or a
church because of the
belief that divine beings
are in these places.
Most of the time, the sacred
is imbued with the
supernatural.
associated with entities,
events, figures, objectives,
and sites that are treated
with reverence;opposite
to those that are taken for
granted in everyday life.

19. The origins and destiny
of life., concerns about
salvation, key events of
sacred entities, and
moral principles.
Religions are guided by
texts rendered sacred
by special events or
figures.
These constitute the
body of beliefs that
define a religious
institution as distinct
from others.III. Religion
As a body of beliefs and moral prescription.

20. Practices can also be
inline with moral and
behavioral
prescriptions.
Practices are typically in the
form of individual and
collective rituals involving
prayer, worship, purification,
baptism, and sacrifice.
Wearing particular outfit or
avoiding consumption of
food, while commonplace
for some, may be deeply
religious for others.IV. Religion
As following a set of Practices that relates to Sacred.

21. “The desire for a strong
faith is not the proof of a
strong faith, rather the
opposite. If one has it
one may permit oneself
the beautiful luxury of
skepticism: one is secure
enough, fixed enough
for it.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche

23. Om for
Hinduism
Dharma-
chakra for
Buddhism
Jain Prateek
Chihnafor
Jainism
Khanda for
Sikhism
Star of
David for
Judaism
Cross for
Christianity
Star and
Crescent for
Islam
Taijitufor
Daoism

24. BACKGROUND:
FOUNDER:
DATE BEING
CREATED:

25. Om for
Hinduism
Dharma-
chakra for
Buddhism
Jain Prateek
Chihnafor
Jainism
Khanda for
Sikhism
Star of
David for
Judaism
Cross for
Christianity
Star and
Crescent for
Islam
Taijitufor
Daoism
G1 G2 G3 G4
G5 G6 G7 G8

27. Hinduism (/ˈhɪnduˌɪzəm/)is an
Indian religion or dharma, a
religious and universal order by
which its followers abide. The word
Hindu is an exonym, and while
Hinduism has been called the oldest
religion in the world, it has also
been described as sanātanadharma
(Sanskrit: सनातनधर्म, lit.''the
eternal dharma''), a modern usage,
based on the belief that its
origins lie beyond human history,
as revealed in the Hindu texts.
Hinduism

29. Buddhism
Buddhism (/ˈbʊdɪzəm/ BUUD-ih-zəm, US also
/ˈbuːd-/ BOOD-),also known as Buddha
Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian
religion[a] and philosophical tradition
based on teachings attributed to the
Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in
the 6th or 5th century BCE. It is the
world's fourth-largest religion, with
over 520 million followers, known as
Buddhists,
Buddhism originated in the eastern
Gangetic plain as a śramaṇa–movement in
the 5th century BCE, and gradually spread
throughout much of Asia. It has
subsequently played a major role in Asian
culture and spirituality, eventually
spreading to the West beginning in the
20th century.