RELI 1710 Study Guide - Final Guide: Burning Bush, Sigmund Freud, Mosaic Covenant

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Religion
• Course: RELI 1710
• Professor: Zeba Crook

Document Summary

Science seeks to define, classify, and analysis. The study of religion requires you to define and classify religion. Devotion to or beliefs in god; this is an emotional response that doesn"t fit all religions. They may have multiple or not at all. Religious people may hold other actions higher (sacrifice, etc. ) than belief in god. We cannot say that faith is the essence of religion. It would eliminate too many things that are obviously religious. Religion comes to people in revealed or sacred scripture: the word sacred doesn"t mean the same thing to any two groups. To some people it could mean that the writing came from god without any intervention, and to some people it could mean that god gave the information to a human to write. There have been many religious communities who did not have a written text. To classify means to exclude something, and you can"t define religion without excluding at least one religion.