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| Paul Tillich's Definition of Religion |
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| "religions is man's ultimate concern" |
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| David Bradley's definition of religion |
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| "Religion usually has to do with man's relationship to the unseen world, to the world of spirits, demons, and gods." Also has to do with salvation |
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| Martineau's definition of religion |
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| "religion is the belief in an ever living God that is in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the universe and building moral relations with mankind |
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| Schleiermacher's definition of religion |
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| "The essence of religion consists in the feeling of absolute dependence" upon a being higher than ourselves |
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| Kant's definition of religion |
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| "Religion is the recognition of all duties as divine commands" |
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| Lyon's definition of religion |
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| "religion is a lifestyle" |
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| William James's definition of religion |
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| Religion is "that which demands our ultimate allegiance, or that which involves our beliefs about God or what we consider sacred" |
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| Characteristics of Religions Originating in Central Africa, South America, North Asia and the Pacific Island |
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1. Emotional awareness
2. Panpsychism
3. Mana
4. Animism
5. Tabu
6. Fetish
7. Magic
8. Shaman |
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| Characteristics of Religions Originating in the fertile crescent (Near Eastern, Western) |
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1. Monotheism
2. Creator God
3. Space is Real
4. Time is Real
5. Matter is real
6. We live only one life time
7. We are judged based on one lifetime
8. Evangelistic
9. Intolerant in theory
10. Natural man/woman is bad, sinful
11. Doctrinally oriented with major complete scriptures |
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| Characteristics of Religions Originating in India |
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1. Reincarnation based on life lived (darma and karma)
2. Space is not real
3. Time is not real
4. Highest goal is to escape, rise above rebirth, reach a level of union with Brahman
5. Many views about gods from atheism to polytheism to pantheism
6. Tolerant in theory
7. Experientially oriented with fluid cannon of scriptures |
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| Characteristics of Religions originating in East Asia |
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1. Space is Real
2. Time is Real
3. No Creator God
4. Nature worship
5. ancestor worship
6. natural man is good
7. pragmatically and societal orientated with fluid collection of wise sayings and religious authorities to interpret sayings |
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| Wrote "The Ghost Theory", 1st book exploring origins of religion |
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Animism, "primitive people personified or ascribed life and human characteristics to the forces of nature such as the sun, moon, storms and sky".
Beginning of modern study of religion |
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Magic- an organized attempt to coerce nature to do man's bidding
"The Golden Bough"
Problem- sliding scale between science and religion |
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| Primitive Monotheism-all humankind at one time believed in 1 God, then people became sinful and polytheism gradually developed |
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| Bishop Robert Henry Codrington |
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Mana- supernatural power which resides in all things and motivates all the life activity
-Study on Melanesians |
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1. Wish Fulfillment
2. Projection of the father image |
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Racial archetypes
Religion gives us ways to succeed and stay alive
It keeps us from doing dangerous things because we have an unconscious fear of dying |
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| The confrontation with non-being and resulting courage to be |
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| The 3 Ways of Paul Tillich to encounter nothing |
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1. Ontic-relative form is fate; absolute form is death
2. Moral- relative form is guilt; absolute form is alienation
3. Spiritual- relative form is emptiness; absolute form is meaninglessness |
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| Two types of courage that religion has |
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1. Courage to be a part of
2. Courage to be apart from |
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"I and Thou"
If you really want to meet God, love another person, animal, etc. |
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1. Transjective- an interpersonal dialogue
2. Subjective- concentrating on your feelings
3. Objective- treating a person as an object |
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Communism
Religion is nothing more than an institution
A way for the rich to control the poor |
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