Comparitive Religions<\/p>\n
1. Why do you think people believe in God ? (This may pertain to people today or in the past). You might start by making a list of reasons for belief. The parameters<\/p>\n
of a definition for God in this first question can include the notion of a higher power, ultimate reality, universal source (force), supreme entity, or spirit(s). Why<\/p>\n
do people belong to organized religions? How about the whole issue of disbelief? What are the reasons for people not believing in \ufffd\ufffd\ufffdthe divine\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd or some type of<\/p>\n
ultimate reality? Could some of the reasons (and reasoning) for belief be similar to those who opt for disbelief (atheists) or for skepticism (agnostics)? Under what<\/p>\n
circumstances would the reasons for faith or disbelief be different?<\/p>\n
2. Discuss some of the sociological, anthropological and psychological theories for the development of religion or belief systems proposed by 19th and 20th century<\/p>\n
thinkers such as:<\/p>\n
Mircea Eliade Herbert Spencer Emile Durkheim E.B. Tylor Rudolph Otto James Frazier Arnold Van<\/p>\n
Gennep William James John Lubbock Sigmund Freud Rudolf Bultmann Friedrich Nietzsche<\/p>\n
Did the gods create people or did people \ufffd\ufffd\ufffdcreate\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd their impressions of God(s)?<\/p>\n
(Some of these theorists are not in your textbooks. You might choose to research 4 or 5 of the scholars listed above and present some of their ideas.)<\/p>\n
3. How might you define the terms religion, myth, and scripture? What are the definitions used by scholars? When you think of terms like sacred or holy, what type of<\/p>\n
things come to mind? Again, it might help to make a list. Do you think people are becoming more or less \ufffd\ufffd\ufffdreligious\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd in today\ufffd\ufffd\ufffds modern world. Why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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