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 OBJECTIVES
 Identify the various religious belief and practices.
 Understand the various religious practices and belief.
 Explain ways of finding the meaning of life.
 SPIRITED SELF

Williams James in his book, The Psychology of Principle.

The spiritual self is:

 Moral sensibility and conscience.

 Most intimate and inner subjective part of self.
 It is comprised of our self-perceived abilities, attitudes, emotions, interests,
values, motives, opinions, traits, and wishes.

The ability to use moral sensibility and conscience may be seen through
the expression of religion, its belief and practices.
 Characteristics of Religion

 A belief in anthropomorphic supernatural being, such as spirits and gods.

 A focus on the sacred supernatural, where sacred refers to a feeling of
reverence and awe.
 The process of supernatural power or energy that is found on supernatural
beings as well as physical being and objects.
 The performance of ritual activities that involves the manipulation of sacred
object to communicate to supernatural being.
 The articulation of world view and moral codes through narrative and other
means.
 RITUALS
 Is a performance of ceremonial acts prescribed
by a tradition or sacred law.

 A sequence of activities involving gestures,

words and objects.

 Is SPECIFIC.

Hanging Coffins
in Sagada
 World Religious Belief and Practices
2 Type Buddhism

 Mahayana - recognizes Buddha as a God or savior.

 Theravada – recognizes Buddha as a teacher and holy

man.
 Founded in the late 6th century B.C.E at Northeastern Indian.

Buddha or Shakyamuni
BUDDHISM
 World Religious Belief and Practices
4 Noble Truths
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 Dukhka – existence of suffering. A
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 Trishna – root of suffering.
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 Nirvana – end of suffering. E
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 Eightfold path – path to the cessation of Represented Buddhism and Gautama

suffering. Buddha’s way of teachings.
World Religious Belief and Practices

2 kinds Meditation

 Samantha – calming meditation

 Vipassana – insight meditation

World Religious Belief and Practices

Buddhist Monk

Buddhist Temple
Major Buddhist Celebration

 Parinirvana Day in
February

 Commemorate the death of

Buddha.
 Major Buddhist Celebration

 Buddha Day in May

 Buddhists celebrate the Buddha's

three most important life stages:
Birth, Enlightenment and Death.
Major Buddhist Celebration

 Dharma Day in July

 To celebrate the first time Gautama

taught other people.
 Major Buddhist Celebration

 Padmasambhava Day in October

 The second Buddha who integrated

the Buddha Dharma in the land of
Tibet.
Major Buddhist Celebration

 Sangha Day in November

 Refers to a monastic community

AYOS BA
TAYO
DYAN!!!!
 World Religious Belief and Practices
 Covers a wide range of traditional belief and religious
group.

 No single leader or founder.

 Believe in the cycle of BIRTH,

DEATH and REBIRTH
governed by KARMA.

HINDUISM
also known as
Sanatana Dharma
World Religious Belief and Practices
Brahman the Supreme God of Hindus
 World Religious Belief and Practices
Vedas is the
main text.

The sacred
scriptures
of Hindu.

 Sri Krishna is reincarnation of Vishnu

 Radha is the favorite gopi of Krishna
 Hindus Festivals

 Diwali or Deepavali is the

Hindu Festival of Light

 Navrita the Festival of Nine

Night
 World Religious Belief and Practices
Islam
 Mans willing submission to God.

 Muslims believe in ALLAH as “One

God”.

 They believe in unity and universality of

God.

 Qurʾān, Islam’s sacred scripture.

Muslim also have a strong sense of
community called “Ummah”
 World Religious Belief and Practices
Abū al- Qāsim Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh
ibn ʿAbd al- Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim,

 Founder of Islam and proclaimer of the

Qurʾān.

 They believe that Mohammed is the last

prophet sent by God.

 He received revelation of the God

through Angel Gabriel for 23 years.

 Born in Mecca in 570 C.E and died 632 C.E in

Medina

Prophet Mohammed
 World Religious Belief and Practices
Branches of Islam

K.S.Ai I.R.I
 Sunnis believe that the Qur’an  Unlike the Sunni, the Shi’a do
applies to all of life and that not believe that humans will
individuals can approach God see God on Judgment Day
directly and that he will present
himself on Judgment Day

Ibadi and Ahmadiyya

 World Religious Belief and Practices

Qurʾān is the Holy BOOK

of Islam

MISBAHA use by some

people for praying QIBLAH refers to the direction
that Muslims face when
engaged in ritual prayer.
 World Religious Belief and Practices
=Muslims Five Pillars=
1) Shahadah – state of faith: “There is no God but the one true God.
2) Salat - the prayer that is practice five time a day.
3) Zakat – the monetary offering for the benefit of the poor.
4) Sawm – the fasting. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic
lunar calendar.
5) Hajj – Muslim who can afford are asked
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to do the pilgrimage A
at least once in their A
lifetime. B
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 Two Major Festival in Islam
Eidul-Fitr is the celebration at the end of
the month.

Eidul-Adha is celebrated within

the completion of Pilgrimare ,the
Hajj.
 World Religious Belief and Practices
Christianity
 Believe in Trinitarian God.

Jesus Christ is God the Son.

St. Peter’s Basilica

 World Religious Belief and Practices

Church is a biblical word for “assembly.”

Divided into two, which is

the Old and then New
Testament.
 World Religious Belief and Practices
The Sacraments

Sacrament of Baptism
symbolize the birth in
Christian World

Sacrament of Communion is an act of

remembrance of Jesus Christ’s
sacrificial love.
 Major Celebration in Christianity

Christmas Day commemorates the birth

of Jesus Christ.

Easter Sunday
 World Religious Belief and Practices

 Jews believes in the God of Abraham, the same God

that liberated the Hebrew slaves from Egypt to
Canaan, the Promised Land through the leadership of
Moses and later, Joshua.

 They are also believe in the coming of Messiah.

Judaism

Jewish Temple
 World Religious Belief and Practices

Torah or The Law is

The sacred scripture of the
Jews.

Star of David
 Five Major Festivals in Judaism
 Rosh Hashana – the New Year
 Yom Kippur or the day of Atonement - It is a day for praying, fasting and time to attend
SYNAGOGUE.
 Pesach or Passover - Jewish holiday and commemorates Jews liberations by God from slavery in
ancient Egypt.
 Shavuot or Pentecost - commemorates the revelation of the Torah on Mt. Sinai to the Jewish people
 Sukkot or Tabernacle - this activity would help remind people of the journey that they had taken with
him through the wilderness.

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 Expression of the Spirited Self
Religious
belief

What to believe and how to manifest the

Spiritual belief is entirely dependent on the individual,
Practices Rituals to the self.
self
A person might believe that there is a higher
being, supernatural being ,usually termed as
God, but not necessarily wants to be affiliated
or identified with a certain religious group.

Customs
 Viktor E. Frankl
 Born on March 26, 1905 in Vienna, Austria.

 At the age, he wrote a short paper to Freud which was

published after three years.

 Graduated with a medical degree from University of

Vienna in 1930.

 A Psychiatrist and Author.

 The Doctor and the Soul: An introduction to Logotherapy

and Man’s Search for Meaning.

What is Logotherapy?
The main belief of Logotherapy is that “man’s
Father of Logotherapy primary motivational force to search for meaning”.
 Franklian
Psychology

Motivating for living is our will to find meaning Use defiant human resources and stand up
of life against adversity
Life has meaning under all
Make conscious spiritual resources
circumstances
Freedom to find Became aware of spiritual
meaning resources
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is the only way to grasp another
human being in the inner most core
of his personality

Starts with holding a future

GOAL.

A meaningful life is life

with SUFFERING.
The SUPERNATURALS Thank You GUYS!!!!

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