Supernaturals

Believe it or not
• Spiritual Self
• One of the four constituents of the “self”
• The most intimate, inner subjective part of
self.
• The ability to use moral sensibility and
conscience may be seen through the expression
of religion, its belief and practices.
• Moreover seeking the meaning of life is a
journey that the spiritual self is on.
Abstraction
• Rebecca Stein
• works on the definition of “Religion”
• Religion
• “As a set of cultural beliefs and practices”
• Belief In spirits and Gods
• Focuses on sacred supernatural
• Presence of Supernatural Power
• Performance of Ritual Activities
• Articulation Of worldview
• Provide creation
• Ritual
• Performance of ceremonial act

• 3 fundamental characteristics of rituals

• Feeling of awe
• Dependence upon thy belief
• Symbolic in Relation

Self can be described as a ritual for how

the self exhibits striking similarities between
Their ritual and Verbal behavior.
 World Religious Beliefs and
Practices
• Buddhism’s Belief
• Believes that life is not a bed of roses. Reactive cycle of wanting
or Hating, Like and dislike, and craving and aversion. This
what so called reactive cycle can be broken through The
practice of mediation, wisdom and understanding, lastly
acceptance of how things are.
• Buddhism’s Practices
• 2 types of mediation practices which are Samatha and vipassana.
• Samatha – Mindfulness of breathing and development of loving –
kindness (Metta Bhavana).
• Vipassana – Aims to develop insight into reality.
• To acquire wisdom one’s self to study Buddha’s teaching, The
dharma.
• Buddhism’s Practices
• Buddhist Celebration Parinirvana Day in February; Buddha Day
(Wesak) in may; Dharma day in July; Padmasambhava day in
October; lastly sangha day in November.

Dharma Wheel
 World Religious Beliefs and
Practices
• Christianity’s Belief
• Holy Trinity
• The bible is divided into two testaments
• Christianity’s Practices
• Sacrament of Baptism and communion are practiced by
Christian churches.
• Christmas and resurrection (Easter) two major
celebrations.
• Christmas usually on December 25th while resurrection
Sunday (Depends on the lunar calendar, Either march
or april)
 World Religious Beliefs and
Practices
• Hinduism’s Belief\
• Covers a wide range of traditional beliefs and
religious groups; thus, there is no single founder
or leader.
• Existence of cycle of birth, death and rebirth, governed by karma.
• Karma – The reincarnated life will depend on how the
past life was spent.
• Vedas is their sacred scriptures
• Mahabharata and Ramayana are two important texts
• Hinduism’s Practices
• Diwali, and Navrati are the most celebrated festivals
• Diwali is the Festival of lights while Navrati is the Festival of nine nights,
which celebrate the triumph of good over evil
• Set dates to honor particular manifestation of God
 World Religious Beliefs and
Practices
• islam’s Belief