...RELIGION AND WORLDVIEW ASSIGNMENT # 4 GARY APARICIO STUDENT ID: 506201 10/07/13 INTRO TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY VANGUARD UNIVERSITY FALL 2013 PROFESSOR ADAM AYERS “Religion is an organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that relate humanity to an order of existence. Many religions have narratives, symbols, and sacred histories that are intended to explain the meaning of life and/or to explain the origin of life or the Universe. From their beliefs about the cosmos and human nature, people derive morality, ethics, religious laws or a preferred lifestyle. According to some estimates, there are roughly 4,200 religions in the world.” (Wikipedia.) Unlike some other cultures where a single religion is dominant; Korean culture has a wide variety elements of religion that have shaped the way people behave and think. When I asked Dr Ong if they are different kinds of Spiritual forces in life. Dr Ong replied that he does not believe in any spirits, ancestors, divine beings, curses, karma or magic. He claims to believe in Science. Dr Ong mentioned that he believes that we live in a primarily natural world not a supernatural one just like many others think. He said “ 1 plus one equals to two not to three”. He also mentioned believing that in life you give what you get. If you work/study hard you will go further than if you don’t. After doing some research, I realize that Dr Ong is influenced in Confucionism. Many Koreans don’t realize that they...
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...APOL 104 June 2, 2014 Worldview Assignment Every human being has a worldview. They may not know exactly what that is but every person has an idea of how they think about things and what they believe in. Our worldview makes up the way we think, feel, and act upon certain issues in life. The environment in which we are raised has a lot to do with our worldview. Most people gain their way of thinking through the ways their parents think about issues in life. For example, parents can have a certain political party they align with and growing up the child can feel like they lean the same way but after learning and understanding the issues on both sides they can decide to change their minds on which party they feel best suits them. The media and the people that surround them also can have a major effect on a person’s worldview. Music, television, and internet paly important factors in the learning and growing process of children. They can use their popularity to make a person feel a certain way which can make them associate themselves with a crowd or idea. The friends and other people they are in contact with can also affect a person’s worldview. People constantly share ideas and communicate them to each other which can influence the way they think. Hopefully, the media and people they are interacting with have a good message to share so that the person can have a worldview that is inspiring and good in nature. The origin of the universe and of man has long been a question...
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...Christian Worldview: Effects of Technology On Religion and Interpersonal Relationships xxxxxx GENE 100 xxxxxx Modern technology advancements have transformed the way individuals believe today. Information technology benefits the organizational structure, marketing, advertising and communication approaches that allow individuals to be successful but at what cost are these tools affecting our interpersonal relationships with each other and to God? Advances in phone calls, e-mail, text messaging, video conferencing and social media allow for a faster, more reliable way to communicate but personal interaction is now lacking. I believe societies ‘addiction’ to technology is a vast problem and it is hindering many aspects of our lives including Christian worldview. As technology continues to develop small business are growing, communication is instantaneous and medical advances have grown tremendously because of it. So how does technology relate to Christian worldview development? In every way! Families now sit at their dinner tables looking at electronic devices and individuals walk in the park looking at their phones hoping to avoid an intimate conversation. As people sit in public spaces text messaging, emailing, searching Facebook, technology is withdrawing understanding, closeness and consideration from those around them. Individuals with a Christian faith should be spreading the word of The Lord instead of conducting in these disengaging actions. According...
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...Nature of Religion and Beliefs What is a Worldview? One of the biggest problems of present society is the effect of overall change and acceleration on human psychology. Neither individual minds nor collective culture seem able to cope with the unpredictable change and growing complexity. Stress, uncertainty and frustration increase, minds are overloaded with information, knowledge fragments, values erode, negative developments are consistently overemphasized, while positive ones are ignored. The resulting climate is one of nihilism, anxiety and despair. While the wisdom gathered in the past has lost much of its validity, we don't have a clear vision of the future either. As a result, there does not seem to be anything left to guide our actions. What we need is a framework that ties everything together, that allows us to understand society, the world, and our place in it, and that could help us to make the critical decisions which will shape our future. It would synthesize the wisdom gathered in the different scientific disciplines, philosophies and religions. Rather than focusing on small sections of reality, it would provide us with a picture of the whole. In particular, it would help us to understand, and therefore cope with, complexity and change. Such a conceptual framework may be called a "world view". A model of the world It should allow us to understand how the world functions and how it is structured. "World" here means the totality, everything that exists around...
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...At its most primitive level, Secular Humanism denies any form of transcendence and promotes freewill as ultimate authority. L. R. Bush states that in a modern worldview, one believed to be the heartbeat of Secular Humanism, “Individual freedom became a high priority…But this new, secular freedom ultimately refused to submit even to God…” David Noebel even quotes one core belief presented, “in the 1973 Humanist Manifesto by Paul Kurtz that ‘no deity will save us, we must save ourselves.’” Interestingly, however, Secular Humanism though it often denies the claim that it is a ‘religion’ seems to have been birth of a well-known, widely accepted religion of Christianity. Matthew Englke states that while studying the anthropology of Secular Humanism in England, many of the secular humanists there, claim a Christian or even Jewish background, and for some Christianity is an important orientation....
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...Worldview Essay Introduction I have struggled trying to discover my worldview this entire course because I have always thought of myself as a Christian even though I grew up Catholic. I believe that this course has taught me many different things and the most perplexing of all is that I now believe my worldview is most like Humanistic Naturalism and slightly neutral. In writing this paper I will address questions concerning religion, God, and morality using my opinions that support my conclusion to my own personal worldview. Worldview Assumptions Before this course started I assumed that it would be sort of like Sunday school and we would be learning about and reciting scriptures for seven weeks. I did not understand what a worldview was but assumed it was as simple as how I viewed the world. I assumed the course would be boring and very repetitive. In regards to religion I assumed that everybody who believed in God was Christian. I also assumed that most students’ views of God, the Bible and religion would be similar. My assumptions were not very accurate and I feel much more knowledgeable on the subject of worldviews and religion and the Bible now than I did at the beginning of this course. Who is God? Before this course I assumed people who believed in God believed the same thing about God but depending on who is asked the question, who is God we may get many different variations based off of people’s differing worldviews. For example, a Humanistic Naturalist...
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...even when naturalism is exposed. It appears that Bush’s reasoning behind this book is to question societies capability in vindicating scientific axioms that persuade against the Christian worldview, a worldview that is more realistic. Considering Bush’s arguments, even though he is successful in breaking down the naturalistic worldview with sound and effective evidence to reinforce his stance, he did not refute their perception with sound biblical evidence or theology to show why Christianity is a stronger and more realistic worldview, causing him to fail regarding the defense of Christianity when given the proper platform. This took place throughout most of the book. Concerning naturalistic worldviews, a growing trend, society has concluded that anything new constitutes as being the best option needed to solve the issues of the world (ix), as if someone took the time to research every religion known to man, dissected each one individually, separated the good from the bad, then created a new religion with only the good from each old religion. Moreover, Bush authored a book that comprised an assortment of worldviews. When...
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...world, but promptly diverts to discussing his take on the religion status of the world. Many of his essays, including this one, have continuously addressed controversial topics and discussions amongst society throughout time. Divinity School Address is an essay that many Christians have discussed, using its comparing Emerson's contradictory and harsh accusations and statements to their own Christian worldview. My goal of this essay is to discuss the reasons why I disagree with the claims that Emerson makes about his worldview and his view of religion as they starkly contradict with a Christian's worldview, as I contradict them when in comparison with a Christian’s worldview....
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...What is the remedy? Reformational worldviews and Islamic worldviews are very differing in their perspectives on remedies to certain problems. Just as both these groups would view the problems differently, they also view the solutions differently. The Reformational worldview calls us to understand those who have differing views than us and to love those that we may find unlovable, or our “enemies.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. calls us to view the enemy in a loving way. He said that we have the Christian and moral responsibility to discover and live out the calling to love thy enemy. Hatred only produces more hatred. Just as MLK says that loving the enemy can help break down the barrier of hatred, this is also a Reformational’s remedy. Matthew 5:44 calls us to “love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” Just as God loves us through our flaws, we should show love to others, even if with disagree with them. Moreover, God created mankind in His image. Instead of seeing someone with different perspectives negatively, we should see them as image bearers of God. God still loves them as much as He loves us....
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...evaluating my worldview, I realized that I am pantheist which beliefs the universe and God conceiving of both as indistinguishable and entirely consistent with one another. I believe that God created everything except the universe. According to the practical test, I can live my worldview out in the world as we know it because every person has a different point of view. The practical test demonstrates that a person can be a good citizen, but if he gets upset then he will change his worldview. For instance, I became dissatisfied with being Catholic because I stop believing in churches and in the priest. Many times I when to church and would listen how the priest would criticize the people while everyone believe it was funny, I found offensive.Also, how people who attend to church can feel empowered to kick me out as if they had the right to do it....
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...When you give thought to your perspective and what you believe, what you hold dear, and what you consider truth- you are crediting your worldview. When I think of the term worlview, I think of our individual identities, as well as our perception of what goes on around us. It’s the framework to our thought process and decision-making. Our moral compass, ethics and spiritual affiliation make up our worldview as well. So many things can factor into how we interrupt life events or other people. How we are raised, what’s taught to us in school or at home, or belief systems. All of these impact us on a daily basis. Our decision-making skills often rely heavily on our worldview. When one thinks about theology and faith, in regard to Christianity especially--we understand that our worldview can sometimes be shared with others who believe in the same thing. There are 2.2 billion registered Christians worldwide, nearly a third of the world’s total population (6.9 billion). Lets say that half of the registered Christians are practicing Christians, and for the sake of this point lets assume that half of them try to uphold the teachings and practices of the religion. That would leave 1.1 billion people who in one-way or another share a worldview that is consistent with our own. Christians share several worldviews that are specific to our faith such as Heaven and Hell, God/Jesus/Holy Spirit, for some people knowing that others believe what they do or would approach a situation using a...
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...My Worldview Name J.S. & G.B. My Worldview "Grappling with uncertainty- not over the existence of God or the divinity of Jesus but over the fundamental issue of whether he could totally trust what his bible was telling him" (Strobel, Pg 9). I start with this quote because I feel it describes how I feel about my worldview. I feel that I’m Christian, but I am always questioning my religion. Whether or not to believe everything that is told to me. I do believe that God is real and that there is a heaven, but I have this feeling that there is more to it. I believe that I am Christian, because I was raised Christian by my parents. It was the right thing to do, follow my parents’ beliefs. I feel that my worldview is what defines a person and where they stand in life and religion. I believe God is our creator and is our spiritual being. He is the man we pray to; he is the one that created us in his image. I also believe that as a human we will all die at some point, and once we die we would go to heaven. The path to heaven is not easy but with the help of your church and your faith with God we can all get there. I believe that everything that was created in our universe is real and materialist, it was done by God. He made everything real so we could live off the land. I also believe that the nature of it all is real and not an illusion or a dream. I believe all of this is true, because everything I have been taught; has also been backed up with legitimate facts to prove it to be...
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...Worldview is made up of seven elements that are all integral to what we think of each other. I have chosen the three elements of worldview that I find most important. The first element I believe is important is Geography. The second element is Beliefs. The third element is Knowledge. I will use evidence from the movie the gods must be crazy to prove my point. In The gods must be crazy Geography plays a big role in the lives of the Bushmen. Three things that make Geography an important part of worldview are resources, climate, and culture. Resources are a big deal for the Bushmen and how they live. They live in isolation so their resources are limited so they don’t own anything, they share. How the Bushmen live is hugely affected by the climate....
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...Christian Worldview Worldview Essay Many people go about their lives believing and practicing different religions. These beliefs usually develop through how an individual interprets or perceives reality, also known as a worldview. Everyone may not follow a certain religion or believe in the same God or a God at all, but everyone has a set of views and beliefs about the universe and life in general that they live their life by. Whether it is conscious or subconscious, everyone possesses a worldview. A Christian worldview is a more specific belief system that consists of many aspects. It is a view that mediates from our understanding and experiences of the world and I believe that my worldview generally matches up to that of a Christian worldview, but has its differences. Christians generally believe that God is the center and origin of all things, he is self-defining and he created everyone for a specific purpose. For one, I do believe in God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. I am also a follower of the Christian faith. However, I am still young and trying to discover different aspects of myself and how I see and interpret the world. Since I am still experiencing the world and seeing different aspects of it daily, my worldview is constantly changing. What I perceive as my worldview has its similarities and differences from a Christian worldview. For example, there are two views to the development of the universe. One is that the universe was an accident and just happened...
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...Absract A worldview is the way an individual understands and processes the world and reality. Worldviews can be realized by answering seven questions. Most religions have a worldview that is unique to its belief system. This paper aims to compare the worldviews of Christianity and Buddhism, and their implications on health care. Important factors regarding care provided by those of other religions will be discussed. The common components to different religions, as well as the author’s personal views and new perspectives, will also be discussed. Health Care Provider and Faith Diversity America is known as a melting pot of cultures, and because of this, health care providers encounter patients and families from a multitude...
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