RELIGION AND
BELIEF SYSTEMS

RELIGION
According to Anthropologists,
Religion is “a set of attitudes, beliefs
and practices, pertaining to supernatural
beings and forces. Such belief may vary
within a culture as well as among societies
and they may change over time”
(Ember, Ember and Peregrine, 2010)

Religious and Non-religious phenomena
Kikuyu of Kenya
Vomiting is a religious
practice as it eliminates all
the evil in a person's body.
In most societies
Vomiting is not
considered religious,
as it is understood as
typical biological
event.

Spiritual and natural world
Nyoro (Uganda)
Believe that two worlds
are not separate and
that they coexist in one
space.
Christians
Believe that there is
spiritual world
(Heaven/Hell) that is
separated from the natural
world (Earth).

Many religious posses:
-Holy scriptures
-Narratives or Sacred
accounts
=that aim to explain
the origin and meaning
of life and the universe

Many religions have:
-clergy
-rules on membership
-holy places
-religious rites
-visual symbols
-creeds
-doctrines
-mythology
-philosophical system
-organized religion

Religious practices:
-worship services
-prayers
-sacrifices
-festivals
-wedding
- baptism

*4,200 religions in the world
*Major religions of the World
-Hinduism
-Buddhism
-Jainism
-Sikhism
-Taoism
-Shintoism
-Zoroatrianism
-Confucianism
-Judaism
-Islam
-Christianity
TRIVIA

are sets of principles that help
interpret natural and
supernatural occurences that
affect lives.

ANIMISM
IT BELIEVES THAT
THIS BELIEF
START THE
CONCEPT OF
RELIGION
“ANIMA”
SPIRIT
GOOD SPIRIT
BAD SPIRIT
B
E
L
I
E
F
NATURAL WORLD
-WHOLE
-IN PARTS
Georg Ernst Stahl
The soul is the vital principle
responsible for organic
development
“all regions,
from
simple to
complex,
involve some
form
of animism

The people of the Great Plains
- Plains Indian, who are the most member are the Native
Americans.

POLY
MANY
GOD
POLYTHEISM

POLYTHEISTIC RELIGIONS
HINDUISM ANCIENT EGYPTIAN RELIGION

POLYTHEISTIC RELIGIONS
GREEK MYTHOLOGYROMAN MYTHOLOGY

MONOTHEISM
Is the belief in
single
or one God
MONO MEANS
“SINGLE”
THEISM MEANS
“GOD”
ISLAMS JUDAISM
CHRISTIANS

Reference:
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