Unit 1: the 7 dimension of religions

This dimension of religion uses non-rational stories to explain cosmology or the human condition .

• Social

• Mythic

• Ritual

• Material

• Experiential

This dimension involves an encounter with a spiritual reality such as a divine revelation or moment of enlightment

• Mythic

• Doctrinal

• Experiential

• Material

• Ethical

This dimension involves religious actions that often reenact a mythical story

• Ritual

• Material

• Doctrinal

• Ethical

• Experiential

This dimension describes the way the physical world is described and used within a religion

• Mythic

• Social

• Ethical

• Material

• Doctrinal

The beliefs and teachings of a religion, this dimension often involves a creed.

• Ethical

• Doctrinal

• Ethical

• Ritual

• Social

This dimension describes the way believers organize themselves according to their beliefs

• Experiential

• Ritual

• Material

• Doctrinal

• Social

This dimension describes the way a believer is supposed to act, often when treating others, within a religion.

• Doctrinal

• Mythic

• Material

• Ethical

• Ritual