Q1 L1 - Understanding the Nature of Religion

• Who said, “A mind is a blank slate”?

  John Locke
• What is the Latin word that translates to “religion”?

  Religare
• this is the ability to reason and be rational and is described as an innate or a natural ability

  
  

  
  

  rationalism
• this is the belief that denies the existence of a God and asserts that all that exists is the material universe

  
  

  
  

  naturalism
• What is the set of beliefs used to understand the world called?

  Worldview
• Who said, “God is dead”?

  Friedrich Nietzsche
• What is the Latin meaning of religion?

  to hold, fasten, bind, together
• the stories that we tell ourselves to improve our personal identity

  belief system
• “holiness”

  sacred
• What concept proposes that knowledge is obtained from experience?

  Empiricism
• this is the belief in someone else’s experience

  religion
• What does the belief that God/s created the world and continues to be involved in humans imply?

  theism
• What is the way of celebrating, commemorating, or upholding religious traditions called?

  religious rituals
• this belief system is based on your own experience and your own observation

  spirituality
• What is the belief system that God/s created the world but is no longer involved in humans called?

  Deism
• What is the belief in many Gods called?

  Polytheism
• What does the belief that God/s inner spiritual essence of everything in the world imply?


  pantheism
• it means "one"

  mono
• it means "many”

  poly
• "This unites us"

  religion
• "This allows us to discover the truth"

  spirituality.
• "This applies discipline"

  religion.
• "This makes us vow"

  religion.
• "This makes us show courage"

  spirituality.
• "This applies faith/destiny"

  spirituality.
• "This shows us fear"

  religion.
• "This makes us dependent"

  religion.
• "This makes us independent"

  spirituality.
• "This allows us to make our own, personal journey"

  spirituality.
• "This sets us free"

  spirituality.
• "This, at some point, discriminates because it separates itself from other beliefs"

  religion.
• "This makes us follow its journey"

  religion.
• "This tells/dictates the truth"

  religion.
• this belief system believes that there is no clear distinction between God and the universe

  monism
• may refer to sets of attitudes, beliefs, and practices aimed at communicating or propitiating with supernatural beings.

  religion
• deals primarily with issues concerning religion, which includes analysis on the existence of a divine being or on sacred texts. It may involve studying the concepts and belief systems of the religious as well as the prior phenomena of religious experience and the activities of worship and meditation on which these belief systems rest and out of which they have arisen


  philosophy of religion
• involves the systematic study of the existence and nature of the divine. It deals with the study of the nature and purpose of god that may be undertaken using a particular perspectivee

  theology
• an impression that people are surrounded by a divine reality as universal, intimate, necessary, and invisible just like the air we breathe

  spirituality
• a collection of beliefs about life and the

  universe being held by people

  worldview
• is something an individual can have without being

  implicated by many people in the societies and institutions

  spirituality