world religion

• RELIGION


  comes from latin world 'religare' that means 'to tie or to bind'

  
  

  organized systems of belief to worship God or group of God
• BELIEF SYSTEM


  set of principles that helps in interpreting our daily reality
• DIFFERENT FACTORS OF BELIEF SYSTEM


  1. how we know things

  2. how we are raised

  3. peer pressure among others
• WORLD VIEW


  collection of belief being held by people
• MONOTHEISM


  belief in one supreme God
• PANTHEISM


  belief that God is identical with nature as a whole
• MONISM


  no distinction between God and the universe
• ATHEISM


  Disbelief in or denial of the existence of God or gods.
• AGNOSTICISM


  belief in inanimate objects
• POLYTHEISM


  beleif in many gods
• HENOTHEISM


  belief that each country has its own God
• DUALISM


  belief in two conflict deities, one good and one evil
• BELIEF SYSTEM OR WORLDVIEW


  Many beliefs that fit together in a system to make sense of the universe and our place in it.
• COMMUNITY


  belief is shared and ideal and practiced by a group
• SACRED TEXT


  embody beliefs, rituals, and doctrines
• RITUALS


  explained, thought, and made real through ceremonies
• CENTRAL STORIES/MYTHS


  Stories that help explain the beliefs of a group; these are told over and over again
• GOD OF SUPREME BEING


  believed to be supernatural
• Place of Worship


  where people offer their prayers (church, mosque, temple, synagogue)
• SPECIAL REVELATION


  divine revelation that is specific in content and for a specific audience
• GENERAL REVELATION


  divine revelation that is general in content and for a general audience
• SPIRITUALITY


  one's integrative view of life

  
  

  how a believers internalized their faith
• THEOLOGY


  a study and not a formulation of religious beliefs
• PHILOSOPHY


  a pursuit of freedom
• ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS


  Judaism, Christianity, Islam
• JEWISH


  Abraham as the ancestor of the Israelites through his descendants Isaac and Jacob
• Christians


  Abraham is the 'father of the faith' and the ancestor of Jesus Christ
• Muslim


  Abraham's son Ishmael as the ancestors of the Arabs
• INDIAN MOSAIC


  one of the world's oldest surviving civilization
• HINDUISM


  reflects indian heterogeneity

  
  

  considered as 'museum of religions'

  
  

  hinduism or sanatana dharma become systematized that preached in order and purpose
• BUDDHISM


  world's major religion that originates in India

  
  

  Siddhartha Gautama(Buddha) become the center figure of Buddhism

  
  

  human life is a cycle of suffering and rebirth

  
  

  one achieved a state of enlightenment (nirvana)
• WAY OF DAO


  confucius and laozi were the followers of Dao

  
  

  confucian dao concerns human affairs

  
  

  daoist dao means the way the universe works
• CONFUCIANISM


  kung fu tzu (Confucius)

  
  

  aspire to harmonize human relations and serve as a guide to social behavior
• DAOISM


  laozi (lao-tzu)

  
  

  a way or path signifying the appropriateness of one's behavior
• SHINTOISM


  shinto, local belief in Japan

  
  

  their emperors literally descended from the sun goddess Amaterasu

  
  

  term 'shinto' originated from Chinese words 'shen and tao' that means 'the way of God
• JUDAISM


  developed among the ancient Hebrews

  
  

  organized beliefs during Bronze Age in West Asia
• JACOB


  took the name Israel
• ABRAHAM


  the founder of Judaism

  
  

  the son of Terah

  
  

  has 2 brothers Nahor and Haran

  
  

  has a wife Sarah

  
  

  with 2 sons Ishmael and Isaac
• Abraham born in...

  Abraham was born in the city of Ur of the Chaldea (IRAQ)
• JOSEPH


  11th son of Jacob

  
  

  'may God add or increase