Webster’s definition

A specific system of belief,

Religion
worship involving
Code of Ethics and
philosophy.
 is an organized system of
ideas about the spiritual
sphere or the supernatural,

Religion
along with associated
ceremonial practices.
is institutionalized then
became the cause of the
branching out of different
beliefs.
Religion
as “a set of rituals,
rationalized by myth, which
mobilizes supernatural powers
for the purpose of achieving
or preventing transformations
of state in man and nature.”
-ANTHONY F.C. WALLACE
Western
Christianity,
Catholicism,
Protestantism,
Puritanism, Judaism,
Concept of Holy Trinityand
Evangelicalism.
Hell, Heaven and
Purgatory
Eastern
Taoism, Buddhism,
Hinduism, Sikhism, and
Confucianism.
Concept of Karma

Concept of After-life
 Gods and
Goddesses

Animism Priests Spirits

and
Religion
as
Social
Reality
S
ubstan
concerned with constitutes

tive
religion
Functio
concerned with the social
consequences of religion

nal
 Spirituality
is concern with the
sacred, as
distinguished from
material
is matters.
often individual
rather than collective

does not require a

distinctive format or
traditional
organization.
 The
olo
Study of religious
faith, practice and
experiences

gy
 Rituals
-prayers or sacrifices
Rite of
Passage
 Rite of
Passage
Separation Incorporat
Transition
ion
 Relig v s Spiri
ion tuali
is an institution is born in a person
established by man.
has dogmatic and ty
and develops
through time.
unquestionable invites a person to question, re
assembly of rules his/her actions freely knowing i
needed to be consequences.
does not question nor investigate.
followed without a questions everything.
gives
doubt.promises for after-life
gives light to find God in inner
focuses on what pleases man.
focuses on what pleases God
Spirituality and
Religion
compliment each
other
Relation to
Sexual
Sexua Self
Bond between two
individuals as a sacred
practice.

l Spiritual High in the

act

Self
 Case on ecology
Political
Politi Self
Long debate on
separation of church
cal and state

Self
 Healthy
Spiritual
Self
Agnosticism
The idea of
“spiritual, but not
religious”
Neither agrees or
disagrees that there
is a higher being
 Atheism
Full disbelief in
the existence of
higher beings
A belief in
itself.
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t Century Catho
Thank you!