Introduction to World Religions and Belief Systems - Week 1

1. INTRODUCTIONTO
WORLD RELIGIONSAND
BELIEFSYSTEMS
QUARTER 1 | Week 1
Prepared by:
JUDY ANN S. DE SAGUN

2. QUARTER 1|WEEK1
RELIGI
ON IN A
DIFFER
ENT
LIGHT
Most Essential Learning
Competencies:
 Differentiate the concept, elements and
characteristics of belief system, world view,
religion, and spirituality.
 Analyze the interconnectedness of geography,
culture and religions
 Analyze the influences of religion to culture
and society

3. ACTIVIT
Y:
Call-
a-
friend
Questions:
List down the following questions and
ask your parent/friend about it
What is the most important thing in
your life?
What values do they follow and
why?
Ask them about their idea of God

4. ACTIVIT
Y:
Song
Analy
sis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=uu0lRAl3m4w

5. Day1:
Worldview
and Belief
Systems

6. A very simple definition of a “worldview” is
given by Matt Slick. According to him a
worldview is a set of beliefs used to
understand the world. Everyone has a set
of principles by which to judge right and
wrong and which guides them in everyday
living.The basic way of interpreting things
and events that pervades a culture so
thoroughly that it becomes a culture’s
concept of reality-what is good, what is
important, what is sacred, what is real.
Worldvi
ew and
Belief
Systems

7. Belief system shapes your worldview
about the world, your existence, and
relationships with your fellowmen. In
other words, “ a worldview whether
religious or nonreligious, is a personal
insight about reality and meaning, often
termed a “life understanding” which I may
call a product of belief systems. Most
often worldviews are shaped by religions.
(Serapio,2016).
Worldvie
w and
Belief
Systems

8. Worldview
and Belief
Systems

9. Worldview
and Belief
Systems
Worldviews are not all about God, but
these are also about our views about
reality, man, truth and values.There are
also economic, political and social
worldviews.Worldviews and belief
systems are necessary for religions in
order to protect and spread their own
particular belief as a way of “keeping the
faith” through generations.

10. Worldview
and Belief
Systems
Catholic Christians keep in their hearts
the “Apostles’ Creed”
The Muslims practice “the five pillars of
Islam”,
The Shinto reveres the dead ancestors or
“Kami”,
The Confucians hold dearly the necessity
of past traditions, and
TheTaoists embrace the importance of
being close to nature

11. The
Characterist
ic and
Elements of
Religion
Belief in supernatural powers
Belief in the holy or sacred
Systems or rituals
Sinful acts
The method of salvation
Mode of worship
Liturgy and ideology
Place of worship

12. In 3-5 sentences, summarize
the concepts that you have
learned.

13. Day2:
Worldview
and Belief
Systems

14. ACTIVI
TY:
I
STAND
Stand if your answer to
the following questions
isYES and remain
sitting if NO.

15. ACTIVI
TY:
I
STAND
Does God exists?
Is the world created by God?
Is there such thing as life and
death?
Are there many gods or one
God?
Is it necessary to pray?

16. Religio
n
Our longing for answers enable human
beings to depend for a divine power or
supernatural being hopeful for some
answers to the riddles of life. In the
process, a person searching for profound
answers is the beginning of his encounter
with the divine. Hence, religion was born.

17. Etymologically came from the Latin
word ‘Religare’ which means “to
bind” or “to tie” or some authors
use the word ‘relegere’ meaning to
read again.
Religio
n

18. Religion invites a person into a
spiritual relationship with some divine
entity.This spiritual relationship
stemmed from the
belief that there is a life after this worl
d which is more important than
physical life. Hence it is the role of
religion to invite all persons to believe
in God for them to be saved from this
world
Religio
n

19. ACTIVI
TY:
POSTE
R
MAKIN
G
Create a poster that will show
the different religions and belief
systems that they know.

20. Day3:
Religion and
Spirituality

21. Religion and
Spirituality
When you become a member of a
religious organization, you
normally sacrificed your personal
worldview in favor of the religious
world view or set of beliefs
offered by that organization

22. Religion invites a person into a
spiritual relationship with some
divine entity.This
spiritual relationship stemmed from
the belief that there is a life after
this world which is
more important than physical life.

23. Religion is the opium of the people.
– Karl Marx

24. Religion is a belief to someone
else’s experience while
Spirituality is having your own
experience.

25. RELIGION SPIRITUALITY
For the religion, the questions are:
What is true or false?
What is right or wrong?
Where do I belong?
What rituals/sacraments should I
do?
For spirituality, the questions are:
Where do I find meaning?
What is my purpose?
Where do I find my direction in
life?
What are my values?

26. Spirituality is more of a personal
experience concerns with what are
the essentials in life while religion
focuses more on membership, rituals,
right and wrong or truth and falsity.
Religion is more legalistic in terms of
practice of beliefs while spirituality
entails more freedom in exercising
what they believed.

27. For Dejan Davchevski, religion and spirituality
are two different phenomena:
RELIGION SPIRITUALITY
Religion makes us vow Spirituality sets us free
Religion shows us fear Spirituality shows courage
Religion tells us the truth Spirituality allows us to discover th
truth
Religion separates from other religions Spirituality unites them
Religion makes us dependent Spirituality makes us independent
Religion applies discipline Spirituality applies destiny or faith
Religion makes us follow its journey Spirituality allows us to create our
own personal journey

28. According to Serapio (2016),
SPIRITUALITY is:
Beyond all religions yet containing all
religions
Beyond all science yet containing all
science.
Beyond all philosophy yet containing all
philosophy

29. Religion and
Theology
Theology is a systematic study of
God just like other disciplines such
as philosophy, psychology,
sociology and other sciences

30. Religion and
Theology
Philosophical theology
Philosophy uses reason to explain the essence or
the ultimate reasons why things exist and where
they come from. Philosophical theology uses
reason alone in knowing about God. A famous
theologian in the Catholic Church in the 13th
century, St.Thomas Aquinas exemplify this
approach. His work is called the “Summa
Theologiae” wherein one summa is devoted to
the “FiveWays of Knowing God ” Here the
existence of God can be proven in five ways
using logical argumentation.

31. Day4:
Religion and
Spirituality

32. Activity
: Time
to
Sketch!