REL 2300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Gnosis, Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Neurosis

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Religion is probably derived from the latin meaning to tie back or to tie again . Religion shares the goal of tying people back to something behind the surface of life, a greater reality. Some religions are organized institutions such as buddhism or christianity. These have leaders, sacred sculptures, beliefs, rituals, ethics, spiritual practices, cultural components, and historical traditions. Others are personal experiences of individuals who belong to no institutionalized religion but still have an inner life of prayer, meditation, or direct experience of an inexplicable presence. Religion has been the basic foundation of life in many cultures and times. Religion can be found in some form in every culture around the world. Materialistic- supernatural is imaginary, only the material world exists; religions have been invented by humans. Religions are objectifications of people"s fears and desires. People made gods of the most fearful aspects of nature (ex. lightning and death)

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