CONCEPTS OF

BELIEF SYSTEM,
WORLD VIEWS,
RELIGION, AND
SPIRITUALITY
SELF-TEST

What does religion mean to you?

How do you define beliefs system,
world view, and spirituality?
What do you think is the
importance of religion to your life?
INDIVIDUAL QUERRIES
BELIEF SYSTEM

- stories we tell to ourselves to define our personal

sense of reality
- Shapes your worldview about the world, your
existence, and relationship with your fellowmen
WORLD VIEWS
- Is a set of beliefs used to
understand the world
- Set of principles by which to
judge right and wrong and
which guides them in everyday
living
WORLD VIEWS
 WORLD VIEWS
MONISM
- There is no genuine distinction
between God and the universe
- It contends the belief that God is
dwelling in the universe as part of it
- It also contends that universe does
not exist at all as a reality but only
as a manifestation of God
 WORLD VIEWS
MONOTHEISM
- Claim that there is only one supreme
God who is both personal and moral,
and who seeks a total unqualified
response from humans
- Claim that there is only one God who
could have designed and created the
universe or may have directed all
events that led to the creation of
everything
 WORLD VIEWS
MONOTHEISM
- Judaism (YAHWEH)
- Christianity (JESUS CHRIST)
- Islam (YAHWEH)

THEISM- often used as synonym of monotheism

- Believed in the existence of one god viewed as
the creative source of the human race and the
world who transcend yet is immanent in the world
 WORLD VIEWS
POLYTHEISM
- Belief in many principal gods
among whom no one is
supreme
- Ancient religions of Egypt,
Greece, Rome and India
ATHEISM
- deny the existence of God
AGNOSTOCISM
- deny the possibility of man to
acquire knowledge of the existence
of God
RELIGION
- Religion may be defined as “an
organized systems of belief,
ceremonies, and rules used to worship
a god or a group of gods
- Comes form the Latin word religio
refers to something done with
overanxious or scrupulous attention to
detail
- Latin verb religare which means “to tie
together, to bind fast”
 SPIRITUALITY
- Relating or affecting the human
spirit or soul as opposed to
material or physical things
- involves the recognition of a feeling
or sense or belief that there is
something greater than myself,
something more to being human
than sensory experience, and that
the greater whole of which we are
part is cosmic or divine in nature
 SPIRITUALITY
- Derived from the Latin word spiritus, its verb
root is spirare which means to “to breath
literally”
- Spirituality is something an individual can
have without being implicated in the
ambivalent complexity of human societies
and institutions.
- Can be described as one’s integrative view
of life and involves a quest for the meaning
and ultimate value of life as opposed to an
instrumentalist or materialistic attitude to
life.
 THEOLOGY
- Involves the systematic study
of the existence and nature
of divine
- It deals with the study of the
nature and purpose of God
that may be undertaken
using a particular
perspective
 PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
- Deals primarily with the issues
concerning religion, as well as
the prior phenomena of
religious experience, worship,
and meditation
- Seek to analyze concepts such
as god, spirit, karma, creation,
immortality, heaven, and
purgatory among others.
How does belief system and religion
affect your perspective in life?
Describe the concept of World View,
Belief System, Spirituality, and Religion
Direction: In the context of religion, list down 10 things
that you believe in by completing the following statements.
What you have observed in your own belief system.
Essay Writing
Direction: Write a two-page essay on a clean bond paper A4
size, with a title “Religion: What does it Mean to me?”.

Use the guide questions below:

1. Write different values have your religion
instilled to you
2. What various guiding principles which
may have been influenced by your
religion do you adhere to into your life?