Examples of belief system in the following topics:
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- Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that relate humanity to spirituality and to moral values.
- Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values.
- Edward Burnett Tylor defined religion as simply "the belief in spiritual beings. " He argued, in 1871, that narrowing the definition to mean the belief in a supreme deity or judgment after death would exclude many peoples from the category of religious and thus "has the fault of identifying religion rather with particular developments than with the deeper motive which underlies them. " He also argued that the belief in spiritual beings exists in all known societies.
- The sociologist Emile Durkheim, in his seminal book The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, defined religion as a "unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things. " By sacred things he meant things "set apart and forbidden — beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them. " Sacred things are not, however, limited to gods or spirits.
- Some religions place an emphasis on belief while others emphasize practice.
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- Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that relate humanity to spirituality and moral values.
- Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values.
- Parental religious participation is the most influential part of religious socialization–more so than religious peers or religious beliefs.
- Belief in God is attributable to a combination of the above factors but is also informed by a discussion of socialization.
- Religious ceremonies, such as Catholic mass, socialize members of the faith to the practices and beliefs of the religion.
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- Religious belief is a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny.
- In contrast to other belief systems, religious beliefs are usually codified.
- People with pluralist beliefs make no distinction between faith systems, viewing each one as valid within a particular culture.
- In monotheistic faiths, like Abrahamic religions, references to God are often used in constructs such as "God's Chosen People. " By contrast, people with inclusivist beliefs recognize some truth in all faith systems, highlighting agreements and minimizing differences, but often see their own faith as in some way ultimate.
- Examine the complexity of belief and the categories of belief within society
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- It refers to any belief system that incorporates the existence of a deity.
- In contrast to monotheism, deism is the belief that at least one deity exists and created the world, but that the creator(s), though transcendent and supreme, does/do not alter the original plan for the universe.
- Instead, deism holds that religious beliefs must be founded on human reason and observed features of the natural world, and that these sources reveal the existence of a supreme being as creator.
- Polytheism can also be subdivided according to how individual deities are regarded: Henotheism is the belief that while only one deity is worshiped other deities may exist and other people are justified in worshiping those other deities.
- Monolatrism refers to the belief that there may be more than one deity, but that only one is worthy of being worshiped .
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- Supernaturalism refers to any belief system with supernatural forces, such as magic, and, in general, is prevalent in all societies.
- Supernaturalism is perhaps the broadest classification of religious practices, encompassing any belief system dealing with supernatural forces.
- In many cases, it becomes difficult or impossible to draw any meaningful line between beliefs and practices that are magical versus those that are religious.
- In general, The term religion is reserved for an organized cult with a priesthood and dedicated sites of worship or sacrifice, while magic is prevalent in all societies, regardless of whether they have organized religion or more general systems of animism or shamanism.
- Religion and magic became conceptually separated with the development of western monotheism, where the distinction arose between supernatural events sanctioned by mainstream religious doctrine ("miracles") and mere magic rooted in folk belief or occult speculation.
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- Animism is the belief that non-human entities are spiritual beings, either intrinsically or because spirits inhabit them.
- Animism refers to the belief that non-human entities are spiritual beings, either intrinsically or because spirits inhabit them for a period of time.
- Animism is thought to be the belief system that laid the groundwork for the notion of a soul and the animation of traditionally inanimate objects, allowing every world religion to take those basic principles in other directions.
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- Religion in the United States is characterized by both a wide diversity in religious beliefs and practices and by a high adherence level.
- The United States under the First Amendment allows people to practice their religious beliefs, despite differences in creed or culture.
- Religion in the United States is characterized by both a wide diversity in religious beliefs and practices and by a high adherence level.
- After Christianity and no-religion, Judaism is the third-largest religious affiliation in the United States, though this identification is not necessarily indicative of religious beliefs or practices.
- Religious pluralism is an attitude or policy regarding the diversity of religious belief systems co-existing in society.
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- The symbolic systems that people use to capture and communicate their experiences form the basis of shared cultures.
- Since these symbolic systems were learned and taught, they began to develop independently of biological evolution (in other words, one human being can learn a belief, value, or way of doing something from another, even if they are not biologically related).
- The belief that culture is symbolically coded and can, therefore, be taught from one person to another, means that cultures, although bounded, can change.
- According to sociologists, symbols make up one of the five key elements of culture, the others being language, values, beliefs, and norms.
- Cultures are shared systems of symbols and meanings.
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- Cult refers to a religious movement or group whose beliefs or practices are considered abnormal or bizarre.
- Originally denoting a system of ritual practices, the word was introduced into sociological classification in 1932 by American sociologist Howard P.
- They have been criticized by mainstream Christians for their unorthodox beliefs.
- Cults, for Becker, were small religious groups lacking in organization and emphasizing the private nature of personal beliefs.
- Sociologists still maintain that unlike sects, which are products of religious schism that maintain continuity with traditional beliefs and practices, cults arise spontaneously around novel beliefs and practices.
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- Ideology is a coherent system of ideas that constitutes one's goals, expectations, and actions.
- Ideologies are systems of abstract thought applied to public matters and thus make this concept central to politics.
- In the Marxist economic base and superstructure model of society, base denotes the relations of production, and superstructure denotes the dominant ideology (religious, legal, political systems).
- For Althusser, beliefs and ideas are the products of social practices, not the reverse.
- What is ultimately important for Althusser are not the subjective beliefs held in the "minds" of human individuals, but rather the material institutions, rituals, and discourses that produce these beliefs.