What is Religion?

What is Religion?

1. 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

2. Fundamentalism is based on the desire to resist secularization and to adhereclosely to traditional religious beliefs, rituals, and doctrines.

3. Religiosity are the types of religious attitudes and behavior people diplay in their eveyday lives.

4. Countering the growth of religion in American history is known as secularization.

5. 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.

6. God

   • Angels
   • Heaven