It is the mental model of reality that signifies a comprehensive framework of ideas and attitudes about the world, ourselves, life, a system of beliefs, a system of personally customized theories about the world and how it works.

It refers to a set of principal that help in interpreting our daily reality, These beliefs are shaped and influenced by different factors such as; How we know things, how we were raised and peer pressure among others.

o Majority of World religions follow a set of prayers.

o A melodic sounds with the voice.

o A word or sound repeated to aid concentration in meditation.

o A set of fundamental beliefs.

o The Bible is a religious text that holds sacred significance and serves as the foundational scripture for Christianity. It consists of a collection of writings, divided into the Old Testament and the New Testament, containing various books, narratives, teachings, poetry, prophecies, and letters.

A religion always involves a group of who showed the same belief.

Religion always have enacted belief which are made real through ceremonies.

( Branch of philosophy) deals with morality ( rightness and wrongness) of a human act.

devotion, mystery and bliss

Statues, Paintings, Musical composition, ritual objects, flowers, incense, clothing, architecture.

For most religion, the core of origin of everything is always viewed as “sacred” or mysterious.

There is no real distinction between God and the universe.

Belief

1. God is dwelling in universe as part of it.

2. The universe does not exist at all as a reality but

only as a manifestation of God.

The belief and worship of many Gods. No one is supreme.

Ex. Athena, Ares, Zeus etc.

You shall have no other Gods before me.

Disbelief in or denial of the existence of God.

God cannot be known. A person who neither believes nor disbelieves in a higher power.

 religare which means “to tie together, to bind fast.”

o Is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essences.

o System of religion based on the veneration of natural phenomena for example, celestial object such as the sun and moon and terrestrial objects such as water and fire.

o Australia and Africa, basic culture held a common disbelief in a distant high God.

o People attempted to control nature through rituals, used to restore a sense of control.

o Is the satisfaction of a desire through an  involuntary thought process . Wish fulfillment can occur in dreams or in daydreams.

 relating or affecting the human spirit or soul 

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