2. LESSON ONE:
UNDERSTANDING THE NATURE OF
RELIGION
When one prays, he or she
actively seeks an affinity to
divine beings or supernatural
entities that are beyond the
purely natural world.
3. Majority of World religions follow a set of prayers in the form of:
CHANTS
A melodic sounds
with the voice
4. MANTRAS
• A word or sound repeated
to aid concentration in
meditation
6. UNDERSTANDING BELIEFS AND WORLDVIEWS
Interprets
Differently
Collection of Beliefs
about life and the
universe being held
by people
7. UNDERSTANDING BELIEFS AND
WORLDVIEWS
-SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT & UPBRINGING are critical in
the development of religious life.
-Belief in GOD or GODS
-Presuppose that RELIGION had existed during
prehistoric times.
8. ELEMENTS OF RELIGION
1.Belief System – worldview of a particular group of
people
2.Community –a religion always involves a group of
people who showed the same belief
system.
3.Rituals - religion always have enacted belief
which are made real through
ceremonies.
4.Ethics – (branch of philosophy) deals with
morality
(rightness and wrongness) of a human
act.
9. ELEMENTS OF RELIGION
6. Emotional Experience -devotion, mystery
and bliss
7. Material Expression -Statues, Paintings,
musical composition, ritual objects,
flowers, incense, clothing, architecture
10. KINDS OF BELIEF SYSTEM
1.Monism- there is no real distinction
between God and the universe
Belief: 1. God is dwelling in universe
as part of it.
2. The universe does not exist
at all as a reality but only as
a manifestation of God.
