Zusammenfassung der Ressource
What is Religion?
- Religion is a unified systems of beliefs and practices concerned with sacred things.
- Divides in 2
- Sacred-things and ideas thatare set apart and given a special meaning that goes beyond or trascends, inmediate existence.
- Profane- nonsacred, common place and not involving the supernatural
- Fundamentalism is based on the desire to resist secularization and to adhereclosely to
traditional religious beliefs, rituals, and doctrines.
- Religiosity are the types of religious attitudes and behavior
people diplay in their eveyday lives.
- Countering the growth of religion in American history
is known as secularization.
- Church is a life-encompassing religious organization to which all members of a society belong.
- Divides into 2
- Denomination is one of several religious organization that most
members of society accept as legitimate.
- Sect is a religious organization formed when members of an existing religious organization break away in an attempt to reform the "parent" group.
- God
- Angels
- Heaven