SRS2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Major Religious Groups, Orthopraxy, Classical Compound

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: SRS2112
• Professor: Shelley Rabinovitch

Document Summary

Religion needs to be compared to christianity. If you forget to do it, you will not have a good day. Religions have rituals (faith groups that share rituals: they pay you do to this at this time at this place. Definition: actions carried out for more than just utility purpose. A religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order. Go to church/synagogue because you believe itchristianity: not all sects are orthodoxy. Most christian sects, 1 orthopraxis things they all do=baptism authorized or generally accepted theory, doctrine, or practice. Orthopraxy: action (doing the right) (praxis) i. e. church on a sunday. In the study of religion, orthopraxy is correct conduct, both ethical and liturgical, as opposed to faith or grace etc. This contrasts with orthodoxy, which emphasizes correct belief, and ritualism, the use of rituals. The word is a neoclassical compound (orthopraxia) meaning "correct practice".