[SRS2398] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (33 pages long!)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: SRS 2398
• Professor: Theodore Debruyn

Document Summary

Part one: we will introduce concepts used to understand religion" and health". The second definition captures a larger range of what we think about being healthy and unhealthy. Alleviation of pain or other symptoms by managing it. Coping, coming to terms with, or learning to live with what one cannot change in relation to health and illness. Integration and connection of the elements of one"s being, re-establishment of self-worth, connection with one"s tradition, or personal empowerment. Repairing relationships with friends, relations, ancestors, the community, the world, Developing a sense of well-being or wholeness, whether emotional, social, spiritual, or physical. Diversity: for the sake of religion [people] have earnestly affirmed and contradicted almost every idea and form of conduct. What we find in one religion can be found and contradicted in another. The sacred": some scholars believe this is unique to religion. What distinguishes religion as a human activity from other human activities? o.