Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Religion, Rituals and practitioners, Theories of religion, Elements of…
Religion
Ideas about the supernatural are part of every human culture. Religion is not simply a belief in supernatural beings but a set of practices and social institutions that brought members of a community together.
A unified system of beliefs and practices relative to scared things, beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a church, all those who adhere to them.
-
-
Theories of religion
-
Karl Marx
Religion as an ideology, away from thinking that attempts to justify inequalities in power and status. Religion created an illusion of happiness that helped people cope with the economic difficulties of the life under capitalism.
Sigmund Freud
Religious beliefs provide rules or restrictions that keep the worst anti social instincts. Regulate interactions with socially significant and potentially disruptive objects and relationships.
Clifford Greertz
A system of symbols which acts to establish powerful persuasive and long-lasting moods and motivations by formulating conceptions with such an aura of factuality with moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic. A way to enact or make visible important cultural ideas.
Elements of religion
-
-
rules governing behavior
define proper conduct or individuals and for society as a whole and are oriented toward bringing individual actions into harmony with spiritual beliefs.
Rituals
Practices or ceremonies that serve as religious purpose and are usually supervised by religious specialist.