Table of Contents
- 1 How does religion contribute to identity?
- 2 How does religion affect human behavior?
- 3 What is meant by religious factors?
- 4 What are the factors that lead to construction of modern religious identities?
- 5 Why was the great chain of being created?
- 6 Why are genetic and environmental factors so important?
- 7 How are physical and social factors related to each other?
How does religion contribute to identity?
Religion can be a central part of one’s identity. For some, a religion’s theological beliefs and rituals of worship are central to their lives. Others are more drawn to a religion’s community and culture than to its beliefs and rituals.
How does religion affect human behavior?
For as long as people have believed in heaven and hell, a debate has simmered. Religion makes people act better, supporters have long maintained. Religion poisons everything, an increasingly vocal—and youthful—minority responds.
What is the purpose of human life on earth?
All life forms have one essential purpose: survival. This is even more important than reproduction. After all, babies and grannies are alive but don’t reproduce. To be alive is more than passing genes along.
What is meant by religious factors?
adj. 1 of, relating to, or concerned with religion. a pious; devout; godly.
What are the factors that lead to construction of modern religious identities?
Factors that affect religious identity
- Ethnic differences.
- Gender differences.
- Immigrant generational differences.
- Institutional factors.
- Adolescence.
- Emerging adulthood.
What is the influences of religion to culture and society?
Religion can influence the culture of an entire community, nation, or region of the world. This goes beyond a person’s individual habits to affect much bigger issues, such as how the government is run and what artistic and scientific advances are made.
Why was the great chain of being created?
Elizabethans believed that God set out an order for everything in the universe. This was known as the Great Chain of Being. On Earth, God created a social order for everybody and chose where you belonged. You were a noble, or a farmer, or a beggar, because that was the place God had ordained for you.
Why are genetic and environmental factors so important?
An individual’s genetic disposition is important in that it lays down a fundamental framework that can be a guide for propensities of certain courses of action. It is a fact that someone may be born with the disposition for a higher than average intelligence but environmental factors play a tremendous role in how this trait would be expressed.
How are individual and environmental factors related to health?
Thus, individual and environmental factors may be part of a reinforcing cycle that creates and perpetuates health differences.
1 Although analytically distinct, physical and social environments may also influence and reinforce each other: for example, physical features related to walkability may contribute to social norms regarding walking, which may in turn promote more walkable urban designs and community planning.