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1. “We humans can tolerate suffering but we cannot tolerate meaninglessness.”

2. What is Religion?

3. Religion has always been and remains a powerful dimension of human experience.

4. Being human always points and is directed to something, or someone, other than oneself—be it a meaning to fulfil or another human being to encounter.

5. The more one forgets himself—by or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.

6. Homo religious is one way of describing the human being.

7. It is in the nature of human beings to be religious to go beyond oneself in the service of something or someone usually perceived as greater than oneself and as a source of meaning and well being .

8. Humans are religious in nature.

9. They seek patterns of meaning and action that are ultimately transformative . As such , religion is a model of and a model for reality, as experienced by individuals in the context of social , natural and cosmic existence.

10. Religion originates from the Latin religio which means “conscientiousness” or “reverence” , referring to the awe or fear or felt in the presence of a spirit or deity and may be related to the Latin religare , which means “to bind fast.”

11. For one, religion may be which an individual or community derives meaning and significance and to which community formally adheres in response to ultimate questions and the struggles of everyday life in the light of transcendent reality.

12. Does life have any purpose or meaning ?

13. Where did life come from?

14. How are human beings supposed to live and treat other beings?

15. How does one live well?

16. Is there a form of existence beyond this earthly life?

17. Do Gods or other spiritual beings exist? If so , how do human beings relate with them?

18. Religion is therefore one among a significant variety of ways through which human beings seek meaning and fulfilment.

19. Each particular religion is a worldview, a lens through which human beings see themselves and their ultimate purpose and engage with their fellow beings (human and nonhuman).

20. Each religious world view, rooted in and shaped by a specific historico -cultural and sociolological context, manifests itself concretely through its creed, code and cult.

21. Creed consist of fundamental religious beliefs and assumptions.

22. Code refers to the norms of behaviour that every adherent of a religion seeking well-being and fulfilment is expected to observe.

23. Cult from the Latin Cultus , meaning “worship”) comprises practices that nourish believers interiority/spirituality and their union with ultimate realities, whether solitary or communal.

24. Common Characteristics of Religious Worldviews

25. What do these varied religious worldviews share in common? Identifying their common characteristic s, religious worldviews usually (though not always) express:

26. 1. ways of dealing with peoples relationship to an unseen and transcendent realm of existence, usually inhabited by spirits, deities, demons, and ancestors

27. 2. a set of myths or stories about this unseen world and rituals to commune with it or appease it

28. 3. a system of organized rituals celebrated in holy places by consecrated person and embodied in sacred texts

29. 4 . Statement about life beyond death, either as survival in some shadowy world of the dead, in some version of heaven and hell or through reincarnation

30. 5 . a code of ethical behaviour or moral order

31. 6. large followings, either currently or at some time in the past

32. Some Important terms related to worldviews and religion

33. 1. Theology is one way of engaging in a formal study of particular religious tradition.

34. The term theology originated from the Christian tradition and is rooted in two Greek words theos meaning “God” and logos “word”- the verbal expression of the human experience of transcendent reality.

35. Theology is the formal, systematic attempt to give a rational explanation of the beliefs and practices of a religious institution and of the religious experiences of its adherents. It is an intellectual exposition of a religious tradition from within its community of adherents.

36. In other words, theology is done by insiders, as practitioners of a religion expressing personal convictions within a like-minded community.

37. 2. Philosophy of religion , as the philosophical study of the nature and meaning of religion, consists in analysing religious concepts, beliefs and practices of religious adherents.

38. While dealing with the same concerns as theology, it usually asks more critical questions pertaining to a religious tradition, as it claims to be free from the religious assumptions taken for granted by adherents and therefore, supposedly, more objective.

39. 3. Religion and Spirituality

40. Spirituality is a phenomenon related to religion. Religion and spirituality were formerly inked, as can be seen in one dictionary definition of the term spirituality as “the quality or state of being concerned with religion or religious matters .”

41. However, nowadays, it is more common for people to consider religion and spirituality as being distinct and separate from each other.

42. Can someone be religious without being spiritual? Can someone be spiritual without being religious?

43. Can someone be religious without being spiritual? Its completely plausible. He/ she can observe rituals and participate in community and recite prayers, all without considering himself or herself spiritual .

44. Can someone be spiritual without being religious? Of course in fact it seems like that’s one of the benefits of spirituality for many people. It’s a convenient concept for people who would like to maintain some religious credibility outside of religious institutions: “I don’t go to church , but Im very spiritual.

45. Like religion, spirituality is a complex human experience, and no single definition can accommodate all its diverse expressions. An understanding of what is meant by spirit is implied in spirituality.

46. For Macquarrie , “fundamentally, spirituality has to do with becoming a person in the fullest sense .”

47. Spirituality can thus be understood as the human beings “capacity for self-transcendence in relation to the Absolute,” which involves a search for the meaning and ultimate value of one’s life. It is a way of life that is shaped by the believers encounter with the Sacred

48. How Great World Religions Began

49. There are three basic concepts on the origin of religion, namely: animism, ancestor worship and revelation. Generally, all major religions originated based on either one or combination of two of these concepts.

50. Similarly, there are also three major regions wherein the eight major religions originated: these are Near East, India and East Asia . Judaism, Christianity and Islam originated from the Near East, Hinduism and Buddhism came from India; from East Asia came Taoism, Shinto and Confucianism.

51. These regions have distinctive differences in terms of geography and culture which in effect differentiated the nature, belief system and religious practices and behavior of the religions that originated from them.