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The mixture is some discussion Here are: 1) Is it possible spirituality without religion? 2) Buddhism, a religion? Or spiritual movement? 3) Our image of God. 4) responses are not reasonable or not supported by powerful argument. (rationality). 5) benchmark and benchmark for us to judge / Value judgment must correct argument (rationality) is. I will elucidate first claim: A) Religion: World Religions, two major features are: 1) institutional, and 2) history. World Religions relationship between man and God in the five realm of psychological change: 1) beliefs, doxastic, cognitive, 2) emotions, emotive, affective, 3) voluntary/conative (These three realm are subjective), 4) speech, and 5) act (the tworealm are objective). For example, when we say: I believe in God (first realm), I believe in God (second realm), worship GOD (third realm), invocation God (the fourth realm), and prayer and fasting (fifth realm). But the main problem of institutionalized religion is? Institutionalized religion, incompatible with rationality. What is rationality? 1) independent investigation of truth, 2) full commitment to reasoning. In the event that, institutionalized religion, to "speak", "claim" and so on, a particular person (eg religion) is committed not to correct argument. In other words, institutionalized religion, its owner knows the truth, and rationality, seeking the truth. Moreover, institutional and historical religions, rituals and rites, and certain truths, which does not gather with rationality. Institutional and historical dimensions of religious ritual, represents collective aspects of religions. In other words, religionists, finally, with a series of rites and rituals, collective, the owner of truth (the suspects themselves) are. From
prehistoric times to the present, religion has been a central part of
human experience and culture. Religions are thought to have existed in
all times and societies.Traditionally the term religion was used to
refer to all aspects of the human relationship to the Divine or
transcendent — that which is greater than us, “the source and goal of
all human life and value”.More recently, scholars have started to
understand religion as activities and a way of life: “the fashioning of
distinctive emotions; of distinctive habits, practices, or virtues; of
distinctive purposes, desires, passions, and commitments; and of
distinctive beliefs and ways of thinking,” along with “a distinctive way
of living together” and a language for discussing “what they are doing
and why”. What is spirituality? Apparently, unlike religion, spirituality, institutional and not a historical. Although
the five realm of spirituality also creates a psychological
transformation, but primarily personal (individual) and not collective,
the second rationality is retractable. That could be a correct argument
for the independent investigation of truth, speak of spirituality and
defense (where possible rational defense). Over the last several
decades the term spirituality has entered the common language as an
alternate way to describe our search for the transcendent. In its
original English meaning, “spiritual” was a term used to contrast church
life with “worldly” or materialistic ways of being . In the 19th
century, “spirituality” was not a commonly used term and “Spiritualism”
referred to contact with spirits and other psychic phenomena. In
contemporary usage, the term has a number of common meanings , and
definitions in the scholarly literature also vary. These differences
reflect the fact that spirituality is a broad term encompassing multiple
domains of meaning that may differ among various cultural, national,
and religious groups . Today the term is often used to denote the
experiential and personal side of our relationship to the transcendent
or sacred . Those who use the term in this way typically contrast it
with religion, which they define narrowly as the organizational
structures, practices, and beliefs of a religious group . Theologians
and religious practitioners, on the other hand, tend to prefer
definitions that draw less of a strict division between religion and
spirituality. In their eyes, spirituality is the living reality of
religion as experienced by an adherent of the tradition. argues that
spirituality encompasses 4 themes: (1) a source of values and ultimate
meaning or purpose beyond the self, including a sense of mystery and
self-transcendence; (2) a way of understanding; (3) inner awareness; and
(4) personal integration. The last characteristic is particularly important. Spirituality has an integrative and harmonizing function that involves (a) our inner unity and (b) our relationship and connectedness with others and to a broader reality that powers our ability to be transcendent . Apparently, the fourth component, can be greatly with "mental health" familiarize one.
Conclusion: Perhaps to be clear here which Buddhism is a religion, Religions can not be compatible with rationality. (Especially which themselves owner knows the truth). Spirituality, personal / individual. Spiritual man "seeking the truth". And with more rationality retractable.
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