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4.1 Religious Methods and PracticesVersion 1.4 June 2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â (Previous Version)
This Chapter covers some of the common themes in religion and discussion of religion. These include the types of religious followers, the structure of religion’s core narrative, other key components or religious traditions, the main ways people interpret religious texts, how religions define but don't justify values, the different emphases on beliefs and practices, how religious people can look at their own religion, what we can learn from religion, and what religion really is. Most people’s understanding of religion is woefully inadequate, because most people have not been exposed to a global perspective of religion in its philosophical, scientific and historical context. In subsequent Chapters we focus on indigenous, eastern, western, and modern approaches to religion, and sections within those chapters cover the specifics of the major world religions. This Chapter avoids these specifics to provide an overall structure.
We propose to look at the common themes in religion under the following headings:
As stated in the chapter overview, this is the current summary of our conclusions in this area: Religions address our ultimate meaning and purpose, who and what we are, our origins, suffering, and how we are to live, by providing narratives and role models demonstrating or prescribing certain values, but these must be interpreted in the light of other truths, so religion is more of a practice than a set of dogmatic beliefs.  more                                                             Statement 21
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