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What do you want to know about the influences of religion to culture and society?
The beliefs, values and ideas of religious traditions have made, and continue to make, significant contributions to the development of human societies and cultures. In essence, religions provide a frame of reference for understanding the world and for guiding personal and communal action.
What are the concepts of religion?
Religion is a matter of faith, or belief based on conviction rather than scientific evidence. Faith is frequently portrayed through the use of rituals, which are formal, ceremonial behaviors that represent religious meanings, and totems, which are objects that are collectively sacred.
How does religious belief influence personal development?
Based on data analysis, the basic religious beliefs have the most positive correlation with conscientiousness factor of personality. Therefore, one can conclude that religious people have more of these positive traits and are more responsible and have greater achievements in their life than others.
Why is there such a thing as religion?
The reason religion exists is to help people make sense of events which would otherwise be incomprehensible by relying on unseen, hidden forces. This inadequately addresses the social aspect of religion, though, depicting religion and animism are purely intellectual moves. Sigmund Freud – Religion Is Mass Neurosis
Is the existence of religion and beliefs inexplicable?
Given the importance of religion to people’s lives and culture, the answer to this should be obvious. If religion is inexplicable, then significant aspects of human behavior, belief, and motivation are also inexplicable. We need to at least try to address religion and religious belief in order to get a better handle on who we are as human beings.
All religions include rituals, scriptures, and sacred days and gathering places. Each religion gives its followers instructions for how human beings should act toward one another. In addition, three of the world’s religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—share a common origin: all three trace their beginnings to the biblical figure of Abraham.
How is religion based on distortion of information?
– Their religion is based on three things – fear, distortion of information, and obedience. Fear is the basis of all negative emotions which they are told to avoid. Their god on the other hand has no qualms what so ever about expressing these negative emotions through his frequent acts of wrath and mass murder.