RELIGION & BELIEF SYSTEM Rolaine M.

Labao
WHAT IS RELIGION?
RELIGION IS AN ORGANIZED SYSTEM OF
BELIEFS CONCERNING SUPERNATURAL
BEINGS.
•exercised through rituals
RELIGION, WHICH IS NOTICED TO BE
UNIVERSAL, ASSUMES DIVERSE FORMS AND
WAYS.
•religion is everywhere in the world
•Ex. Traditional African Religion
RELIGION IS AN OLD AS HUMAN
CIVILIZATION.
since ancient times, even Neanderthal
•

people already had a concept of the

supernatural, an idea beyond their
everyday reality as cave dwellers.
EX. MANUNGGUL JAR

made by Tabon people of

Palawan with sculptural
embellishments like human
riding on a boats, a
symbolism associated with
the journey to the afterlife.
FUNCTIONAL ROLES OF
RELIGION IN SOCIETY
• RELIGION IS A SOURCE OF AN ORDERLY
MODEL OF THE UNIVERSE.
• RELIGIONS PROVIDES THEIR BELIEVERS
WITH SETS OF GUIDELINES OF WHAT IS
RIGHT AND WRONG.
AS AN ORGANIC ENTITY, RELIGION DEVELOPED
THROUGH TIME BASED ON THE FOLLOWING
CHRONOLOGY…
ANIMISM
• OLDEST FORM OF RELIGION
• THE BELIEF THAT PHYSICAL OBJECTS ARE SACRED AND
INHABITED BY SPIRITS AND MAY DWELL IN NATURE, PEOPLE, AND
HUMAN MADE OBJECTS.
• ANIMISTIC PEOPLE PERFORM RITUALS, CUSTOMS, AND
CEREMONIES (WITH THE HELP OF SHAMAN)
POLYTHEISM
• BELIEF IN MULTIPLE GODS
• PRE-MODERN PHILIPPINE SOCIETIES WORSHIPPED
NUMEROUS DEITIES EACH ASSOCIATED WITH A
PARTICLAR CRAFT OR WORK, SUCH AS FARMING,
FISHING, WEAVING AND WAR.
MONOTHEISM
• BELIEF IN SINGLE, ALL POWERFUL DEITY
RELIGION AS A SOCIAL INSTITUTION
IN CAPSULE, RELIGION AS A SOCIAL INSTITUTION IS
CHARACTERIZED BY THE FOLLOWING FEATURES:
• ORGANIZED RELIGION OR POSSESSING A RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION

• SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE

• DUALISM TO UNITY

•UNIFORMLY TO TOLERANCE