Lesson 1 origin of religion

1. INTRODUCTION TO
WORLD RELIGIONS
AND BELIEF SYSTEMS
Subject Teacher:
Rendon C. Andrino

2. CONTENTS
Chapter 1
WORLD RELIGIONS IN FOCUS
Lesson 1: Understanding the nature of religion
Lesson 2: Origin of World Religions
Lesson 3: Positive and Negative Effects of Religions

3. CHAPTER 2
ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS
Lesson 4: Judaism
Lesson 5: Christianity
Lesson 6: Islam
Lesson 7: Comparative Analysis of Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam

4. CHAPTER 3
DHARMIC RELIGION
Lesson 8: Hinduism
Lesson 9: Theravada Buddhism
Lesson 10: Comparative Analysis of Confucianism,
Daoism, and Shintoism
Lesson 11: Comparative Analysis of Hinduism,
Theravada Buddhism, and Mahayana
Buddhism

5. CHAPTER IV
DAOIC RELIGIONS
Lesson 12: Confusianism
Lesson 13: Daoism
Lesson 14: Shinto
Lesson 15: Comparative Analysis of Confucianism,
Daoism, and Shintoism

6. Chapter V
religion in the 21st
century

7. Activity 1
Directions: list down 10 things that you believe in by completing the
following statements. What do you observe in your own set of belief
system
1. I believe in/that ____________________________________________________
2. I believe in/that ____________________________________________________
3. I believe in/that ____________________________________________________
4. I believe in/that ____________________________________________________
5. I believe in/that ____________________________________________________
6. I believe in/that ____________________________________________________
7. I believe in/that ____________________________________________________
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10. I believe in/that ___________________________________________________

9. LESSON ONE:
UNDERSTANDING THE NATURE OF
RELIGION
When one prays, he or she actively seeks
an affinity to divine beings or
supernatural entities that are beyond the
purely natural world.

10. Majority of World religions follow a set of prayers in the form of:
CHANTS
 A melodic sounds
with the voice

11. MANTRAS
• A word or sound repeated
to aid concentration in
meditation

12. CREED
A set of
fundamental
belief

14. UNDERSTANDING BELIEFS AND WORLDVIEWS
Interprets
Differently
Collection of Beliefs
about life and the
universe being held
by people

15. UNDERSTANDING BELIEFS AND
WORLDVIEWS
-SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT & UPBRINGING are critical in
the development of religious life.

16. ELEMENTS OF RELIGION
1.Belief System – worldview of a particular group of
people
2.Community –a religion always involves a group of
people who showed the same belief
system.
3.Rituals - religion always have enacted belief
which are made real through
ceremonies.
4.Ethics – (branch of philosophy) deals with
morality
(rightness and wrongness) of a human
act.

17. ELEMENTS OF RELIGION
6. Emotional Experience -devotion, mystery
and bliss
7. Material Expression -Statues, Paintings,
musical composition, ritual objects,
flowers, incense, clothing, architecture
8. Sacredness - for most religion, the core or origin of
everything is always viewed as “sacred” or mysterious.

18. KINDS OF BELIEF SYSTEM
1.Monism- there is no real distinction
between God and the universe
Belief: 1. God is dwelling in universe
as part of it.
2. The universe does not exist
at all as a reality but only as
a manifestation of God.

19. 2. Polytheism- the belief and worship of many
Gods
-no one is supreme
God of Love and Beauty

20. 3. Monotheism- belief in one God.

21. 4. Atheism -disbelief in or denial of the
existence of
God.

22. 5. Agnosticism -God cannot be known

23. “An organized system of beliefs,
ceremonies, and rules in
worship a God or a group of
Gods” (MWD)
Derived from the latin
verb religare which
means “to tie together,
to bind fast.”

24. RELIGION
Holy Place
or Sacred
Belief
in deity
Belief in
deity’s
relationship
with the
world
Ways
to
worshi
p deity
Rules
followed
as a result
of belief

25. Is the belief that
objects, places, and
creatures all possess a
distinct spiritual
essence.

26. System of religion
based on the
veneration of natural
phenomena—for
example, celestial
objects such as the sun
and moon and
terrestrial objects such
as water and fire.

27. Australia and Africa,
basic culture held a
common belief in a
distant high God. The
God of monotheism is
the one real god that
is believed to exist

28. -People attempted
to control nature
thru rituals
-used to restore a
sense of control.

29. Is the satisfaction of a
desire through an
involuntary thought process.
Wish fulfillment can occur in
dreams or in daydreams,

31. -Comes in with the term “SPIRITUAL” being defined as
“relating or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to
material or physical things” (Oxford dictionaries 2014)
-SPIRITUALITY derived from the latin word spiritus—its
verb root is Spirare which means TO BREATH

32. RELIGION SPIRITUALITY
Shows Fear Shows Courage
Tells us the truth Allows us to discover the
truth
Makes us dependent Makes us independent
Applies discipline Applies destiny or faith
Makes us follow our journey Allows us to create our
personal journey

33. 1.Theology
-systematic study of the existence and nature of the
divine.
-It deals with the study of God
2.Spirituality
3.Philosophy of Religion
-deals primarily with issues concerning religion, which
includes analysis on the existence of a divine being or on
sacred text.

34. Activity 2: Ako! A stranger from outer space
Directions: Think of what this factors
(worldview,belief systems, religion and values) would
help you in your direction towards life. You can
present their influence through a semantic web as
shown below; for example you can start by writing.
“Religion makes me a better person.