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Religion is a universal belief system every culture uses to provide meaning unity peace of mind and environmental control?
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Tends to provide stability during conflict and helps people adapt to change.
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While religion does provide meaning, unity, peace of mind, and a sense of control for many people, it is not a universal belief system. Different cultures and societies have diverse religious beliefs, practices, and interpretations. Religion plays a significant role in shaping social norms and values, but its influence varies across different communities.
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Do every culture have some form of religion?
Religion is a belief. A belief is a perspective of the truth. It may or may not be true. Religions have followers that believe that their perspective of the truth is true. However, even though they may or may not have the correct perspective of the truth, they still think they do, so religion is a universal belief system for those people that think that their perspective of the truth is true. If there was a universal belief system for a culture, every member of the culture would have the same perspective of the truth. However no culture has members that have the same perspective of the truth so no culture has a universal belief system. Even within a religion, there a different views held by members, so religion is not the universal belief system every culture uses. Is there a universal belief system? If there is, there must be a universal truth. If there is a universal truth, the universal belief system would be the correct perspective of the truth. The universal belief system would then define what thinking is true or not true. How would you discover the universal belief system? If the truth cannot change, only our perspective of it, it would be possible to discover the universal belief system by questioning every single perspective to see if the perspective can change. If the perspective can change, it would be the wrong perspective of the truth. Whatever remained after questioning would therefore constitute the universal belief system. Has this been done before? In order to discover the universal belief system, a person would be required to make himself or herself think the thoughts of all people and either prove or disprove these thoughts. If a pattern could be found, it would be possible to fast track the discovery process. Rather than questioning every single thought, thoughts would then be part of the pattern. If differences existed between the pattern and the thought pattern in other people, the pattern may or may not be the correct perspective. The pattern of thought that remained after questioning would be the correct perspective of the truth. If two or more thought patterns remained, no universal belief system would exist. A universal belief system has been proposed to exist. By using the philosophical pillar of the point of living, two different thought patterns at the subconscious level were questioned. Only one of these thought patterns remained. (In other words, there was no point in living if the other pattern was correct). This has been proposed as the universal belief system. Any thinking outside of the universal belief system would therefore constitute a psychological disorder. If correct, this discovery has the potential to totally change the way people think about psychological disorders and mental illness.
Does religion and culture impact on how china is governed?
Yes, religion and culture do play a role in how China is governed. The Chinese government has historically sought to control and regulate religious and cultural practices to maintain social stability and political control. Some aspects of traditional Chinese culture, such as Confucian values, have also influenced governing principles in China.
How are culture religion and spirituality connected?
Culture includes arts and lifestyle, both of which are greatly affected by religion. Religion is also shaped by the culture it's in. Spirituality is the impulse given to religion. Religion can help you develop your spiritual side.
Is religion a cultural universal?
some cultures use a religion as their way of life, like the Indians and some American lifestyles, just two around the world use the rules and ways of the religion to live their lives and as to how they observe life and use their emotions and actions as a result of learning adataping and using/integrating the religion into their own culture.
What religion did the Mughals bring to India?
The Mughals brought Islam to India. They were Persianized Turco-Mongols who embraced Islam and established a powerful empire in the Indian subcontinent from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Islam played a significant role in shaping the culture, architecture, and society of the Mughal period in India.
Is religion a human universal?
Yes. Religion is a universal concept in human history, convexing race, geography, and time. In every culture studied, religion expression has been documented.
Religion is a universal belief system that every culture uses to provide meaning?
Meaning is best worked back from the point of living. There is no point in living a life without happiness, peace, forgiveness, love, etc. If the religion ( a set of rules with rewards/punishment) is able to create life full of happiness, peace, forgiveness, love etc, then the religion is capable of creating meaning. The need for religion to provide meaning in a culture is linked to the absence of meaning if the religion is not present in a culture. Without the religion, the members of the culture would not be happy, peaceful, and satisfied, etc. Within a culture, members of the culture may all believe in the religion, however, not all the members of the culture will believe in the same aspects of the religion, therefore religion does not necessarily provide a universal belief system that would create meaning for all members of the culture. Religion is not the only thing that shapes the way members of a culture see the world (universal belief system). Experiences that are too painful to mention may also shape the way members of the culture see the world and therefore derive meaning. If there was a religion that provided meaning to a culture it would be capable of creating a life full of happiness, peace, forgiveness, love etc, and as such would be universally accepted. Perhaps the reason why there is no religion that is universally accepted is because there is no religion at present that is capable of creating a life full of happiness, peace, forgiveness, love etc. If religion is a perspective of God, then for life to have meaning, there must be a religion that is the correct perspective of God allowing for members of the religion to be completely happy, peaceful and satisfied. Such a religion would be the universal belief system of every culture. It is suggested that religions are incapable of creating meaning (happiness, peace, love, forgiveness, satisfaction etc) of themselves, otherwise there would be no human in a religion that was not happy, peaceful, loving, forgiving, satisfied, etc. For life to have meaning, God must have created these emotions, and a way to access these emotions separate to religion (a set of rules with rewards/ punishment).
What is a cultural universal?
A cultural universal is a part in a humans culture
How do non universal norms differ from universal norms?
Non-universal norms are norms that are specific to particular groups or societies, whereas universal norms are norms that are considered common across all cultures or societies. Non-universal norms may vary based on factors such as religion, culture, or region, while universal norms are generally accepted principles that are considered to apply everywhere.
How did language religion and culture diffuse through colonization and conquest?
Language, religion and culture were often forced on the conquered. Sometimes the original language, culture and religion were wiped out and replaced with the conqueror's religion, language and culture.
What are three major causes of conflict?
Mostly Money is the root of all conflict, women, Environmental influences, Religion, tribe and culture doe a lot in all conflicts.
Is Hinduism a religion or a culture?
It is a religion.
Does our culture influence our religion or our religion influence our culture?
Both, but mostly the latter.
What is the culture and religion of the poems by Sharon Olds?
the answer is that we learn culture and religion but i know the answer .
What is determinism in geography of human and economy?
If you mean environmental determinism: people believe that the environment determines the culture, beliefs, religion, lifestyle of the area, including what they wear, what they eat, how they dress everything. The environment is very important, is what environmental determinist's believe.
Why is Greek culture considered universal?
Describing Greek culture as universal is an obvious mis-statement. Do the peoples of Asia, for example, follow Greek culture? They wouldn't know anything about it.
What are the different types of culture religion?
culture trait, culture region, culture diffusion
