REL-205 Chapter 1: World Religions Outline 1
21 Sep 2016
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The academic study of religion is one of the newest disciplines in the modern university. Departments for religions began appearing in non religious universities starting in 1960. Religion requires for the individual to form new ideas and views of the religion of others. Religion is the sense of being tied or bound by sacred obligations to powers believed to govern our destiny. Myths are symbolic story about the origins and destiny of human beings. People who worship higher powers such as: god are designated to. Most religions practice rituals which are known as: actions that link the individual and the community to each other. Religious traditions in places like china and india find their true identity through inner transformations, achieving union and harmony with the same ultimate reality. Contact with ancestors is essential in some religion practices. Some people reject these types of aspects and want to return to the perceived foundational purity of ancestral sacred order.
