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Prepared by: MICHAEL F. RETOLLA

BSED - Filipino

Learning Outcomes:
Define Religion
Identify and describe the
characteristics of Religion
Explain the functions and
elements of Religion

Differentiate churches,
sects, and cults

Religion

Beliefs and practices that

express the devotion to the
supernatural and foster deep
feelings of spirituality.
Vega et al.
Belief about the meaning of
life.
Travers and Rebore 1990

Religion
Beliefs and rituals that serves
to bind people together through
shared worship, thereby creating
a social group.
Social Functions view

Characteristic
s of Religion
Belief in a deity

A code of
conduct

A doctrine of
salvation

Religious Rituals

Believe in a
Deity
Atheists believe that no deity
exists.
Theists believe in a deity or
deities.

Agnostics believe that

existence of deity cannot be
proved or disproved.

A doctrine of Salvation
Salvation is the highest goal of
the faithful and one that all
followers should try to achieve.

A code of conduct
Set of moral teachings and
values that all religions have in
some form.

Religious Rituals
acts and ceremonies by which
believers appeal to and serve
God, deities, or other sacred
powers.
the performance of a ritual is
often called Service

Functions of
Religion
great influence upon
personality development.
allays fear of the unknown.
explains events or
situations which are beyond
the comprehension of man.

Functions of
Religion

gives man comfort,

strength and hope in times of
crisis and despair.

preserves and trasmits

knowledge, skills, spiritual
and
cultural
values
and
practices.

Functions of
Religion
serves as an instrument
of change.
promotes closeness, love,
cooperation, friendliness
and helpfulness.

Functions of
Religion
alleviates sufferings from
major calamities.
provides hope for a
blissful life after death.
Calderon 1998

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l
u
C
s

Sec
t

Difference

Churc
h

Church
large, with inclusive
membership, in low tension
with surrounding society.

Sect

has a small, exclusive

membership, high tension
with
society.
it
tends
toward
the
emotional,
mystic,
stress,
faith,
feeling,
conversion
experience to be born
again.

Cults

more
innovative
institutions and are formed
when people create new
religious
beliefs
and
practices.
Stark and Bainbridge 1985

Cults

Audience cults
characterized by doctrines
delivered to consumers via
TV,
radio,
in
printed
materials.

Client cults have

religious leaders who offer
specific services to their

Cults

Cult movements which

are client cults that have
been enlarged because of a
closely-knit organization.
San Juan et al. 2007

Rituals

Legitimation
of norms

Elemen
ts of
Religio
n
Religious
Community

Sacred

Sacred and Profane

represented by a wide
variety of symbols.
Profane all phenomena
that are not sacred.

Legitimation of norms

religious sanctions and

beliefs
reinforce
the
legitimacy of many rules
and
norms
in
the
community.

Rituals

formal patterns of
activity
that
express
symbolically a set shared
meanings.

Religious Community

religion establishes a
code of behavior for the
members, who belong and
who does not.
Anderson 1999

References:
Vega et al.

Travers and Rebore 1990

Social Functions View
Calderon 1998
Stark and Brainbridge 1985
San Juan et al. 2007
Anderson 1999
Merriam Webster
Filipino Dictionary
Mashell Chapeyama (Zimbawe)

http://www.people.vcu.edu/~
References:

dbromley/sects.htm
https://
www.scribd.com/doc/39090545/The-Dif
ferences-Among-Churches-Sects-And-C
ults
https://
atheistforums.org/thread-15682.html
http://
www.termpaperwarehouse.com/essay-on
/Difference-Between-Cult-Sect-And-C

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References:

www.religioustolerance.org/cults.htm
J. Gordan Melton
https://
gotquestions.org/what-is-the-church.ht
ml
Fr. Manuel Pion
http://
www.sspxasia.com/Newsletters/2002/Ja
n-Mar/Two_Major_Sects_of_the_Philipp
ines.htm
https://

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References:

sociology.about.com/od/S_Index/g/Sect
.htm
Edmond Robillard
http://
www.roca.org/OA/115-116/115w.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Buddhism
http://
www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/qanda0
1.htm

References:
https://
gotquestions.org/hinduism.html
http://
inclusive-church.org/join-inclusive-chur
ch