Introduction to Religion

Dimension that includes the faith experiences of religious people (ex. talking to God, seeing a vision). Religions commonly begin this way.

• ritual

• experiential

• mythic

• doctrinal

Dimension that involves symbolic stories that tends to answer questions of origins and serves as a source of sacred truth.

• ritual

• doctrinal

• mythic

• experiential

Involves the set of beliefs and teachings held and taught by a religion

• doctrinal

• social

• mythic

• ritual

Dimension that deals with how we are to act while living in the world

• social

• ritual

• ethical

• experiential

Dimension that includes a repeated action or a set of actions that carry spiritual significance

• ritual

• social

• mythic

• material

Belonging to a group such as a parish, tribe, congregation etc.

• mythic

• ethical

• doctrinal

• social

Includes sacred architecture of cathedrals, temples, and other structures of worship, art (icons, statues, etc.), incense and candle, and sacred texts

• ethical

• material

• mythic

• social

Vocabulary term that means a formal statement of religious beliefs

• myth

• ritual

• creed

• teaching

A symbolic story that tends to answer questions of origins and serves as a source of sacred truth

• ritual

• creed

• doctrine

• myth

the set of beliefs and teachings held and taught by a religion

• doctrine

• ritual

• ethics

• myth