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Drawing from all definitions we can get about
religion, we can sum it all up into this:
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The study of
the origins of
words
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ANIMISTIC THEORIES
Primitive people believed
in souls or anima found in
people (seen in dreams)
and in all of nature.
NATURE-WORSHIP
THEORY
Human beings first
developed their religions
from their observations of
the forces of nature.
THEORY OF ORIGINAL
MONOTHEISM
Primitive societies were
originally monotheistic. There
was a common belief in a
distant high god, one great god
above all others, and that he
may have been the creator of
the world or the father of the
many deities.
MAGIC THEORY
People attempted to
control nature in the hope
that nature will cooperate
if rituals are done properly
How many
RELIGIONS
exist in the world?
There is no exact count as to how many religions exist in the world.
One of the many reasons is that people have different views on the belief of other.
One might say they belong to a group they call religion
while some others do not consider that same group as religion.
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but...
Why are there so many
religions?
The PLURALITY of Religion
Religion – Man’s response to his experience
Religion = Human Experience
Religion = Human Experience
Aside from the Sacred, what are the
other similarities one can find in
ALL religions?