Wrbs Report 1

HOW DOES
REIGIOUS
BELIEFS
INFLUENCE
CULTURE?
RELIGIOUS BELIEF INFLUENCE
CULTURE IN
• Religious A VARIETY
beliefs WAYS
help
determine tha value
system used in a culture.
• Another way religious
belief influences cultures
have to do with SERVICE
TO OTHERS.
Religious beliefs often
UNITE PEOPLE in a
culture. Coming together
for meals, listening to the
same music that
Identifies a religious
belief, and practicing the
same method of worship
gives people a shared
POSITIVE AND
NEGATIVE
EFFECTS OF
RELIGION
Positive
Effects
• COMOTES SOCIAL
HARMONY
• PROVIDES MORAL
VALUES
• EXPLAINS THE
UNKNOWN
• GIVES POSITIVE
GOAL IN LIFE
Positive
•
Effects
PROMOTES SOCIAL HEIRARCHY
Religion practices a set of

rituals and ceremonies rites.
These characteristics help
advance rocal harmony.
Religion provides divine
authority to ethical and
moral principles which also
help promote UNITY AMONG
Positive
•
Effects
PROVIDES MORAL VALLES
This is one of the most

magnificent Functions of
religion. By providing
moral values, one is able
to distinguish RIGHT
FROM WRONG, GOOD
FROM EVIL.
Positive
•
Effects
PROVIDES SOCIAL
CHANGE
Since religion is a source of

moral values, It provides social
change. It can be very effective
to teach for this certain issues
such as poverty, reproductive
health, gender equality and
Positive
•
Effects
REDUCES FEAR OF THE
UNKNOWN
Religion was developed from a

mar’s need to have a sense of
origin and destination. To
discover where they came from
and where they are bound to
go when they die. But religion
provided assurances as to
Positive
•
Effects
GIVES POSITIVE GOAL IN LIFE
Prophets People were inspired

by the stories of diff. Prophets
from their own religious
affiliations like that of MOSES,
BUDDHA AND MUHAMMAD.
These people showed how
ordinary people like them were
given Important missions in
Positive
•
Effects
GIVES PEOPLE A SENSE OF
BELONGING
Belonging to a particular
religion whose members share
the same beliefs, practices the
same rituals and worship the
same god – gives individuals a
sense of being in the right
place with the right people.
Negative
•
effects
AFFIRMS SOCIPAL HIERARCHY
• CAUSES DISCRIMINATION
• TRIGGERS CONFLICTS AND
FIGHTS
• SERVES AS AN ECONOMIC
TOOL FOR CONTROLLING THE
MASSES
• IMPEDES SCIENTIFIC SUCCESS
AND DEVELOPMENT
• OBSTRUCTS THE USE OF
REASON.
Negative
Effects
• AFFIRMS SOCIAL
HEIRARCHY
Some religions often

favor men and as a
result, perpetuate the
notions of class or
gender discrimination
Negative
• CAUSES Effects
DISCRIMINATION
• Religion can be a source

of discrimination or the
prejudicial treatment of
different categories of
people or things. There
are also religions which
Negative
Effects
• TRIGGERS CONFLICTS
AND FIGHTS
• Wars have been

fought in the name of
religion
For example:
In Palestine, Jews
are in conflict with
the Muslims; In
Kashmir, Muslims
are against
Hindus; In Sudan,
Muslims vs
Negative
•
Effects
ECONOMIC TOOL FOR
EXPLOITING THE MASSES
• Karl Max said, “Religion is

the opium of the masses.” he
believes that religion
maintains social inequality by
propagating a worldview that
justifies oppression.
Negative
• Effects
IMPEDES SCIENTIFIC SUCCESS AND
DEVELOPMENT
• Catholic church claimed that the

earth was flat and that it is the
center of the solar system and so
when Copemicus stated his theory
that the sun is the center of the
solar system, he was banned from
For example:
During the cholera

outbreak in the Philippines,
the Catholic practice of
having the dead body of
cholera victims be brought
to church for a mass was
seen as one reason why the
cholera epidemic continued
to spread rapidly.
Negative
•
Effects
OBSTRUCTS THE USE OF
REASON
•
Many questions of
sustainability of religious
doctrines to the needs of the
present and future
generations. Ancient religious
beliefs and practices which
have proven to be inhuman
For example:
Trepanning or boring of
holes in the skull, a
surgical procedure
performed on epileptics
and the mentally ill,
with the belief that
through the hole, the
HISTORIC
AL
EVENTS
CAUSED
BY
RELIGION
1. Self-Immolation of a
Buddhism Monk
Thích Quang Duc wasin
a Vietnam
Vietnamese
Mahayana Buddhist monk who
immolated himself on 11 June 1963.
He was protesting against the
persecution of Buddhists by the
South Vietnamese government led
by Ngo Dinh Diem. The immolation
was considered to be an act of
defiance against a corrupt
govemment.
2. Widow Burning Among the
Hindus in China
Sati, a 700-year-old Indian
practice of self-immolation of a
widow on her husband’s funeral
pyre, originated among the
ruling Rajput class. Outlawed by
British rulers in 1829, rare cases
still occur today.
3. The Inquisition
The Inquisition, a response to
popular movements like
Catharism and Waldensians in
southern France and Italy, was a
Roman Catholic Church group
charged with subduing heresy
around 1184.
4. The Godhra Train Incident
in 2002
In 2002, a train fire in Gujarat killed
59 people, mostly Hindu pilgrims
and activists. The incident was
investigated by a commission,
which concluded it was a mob of
1000-2000 people. Thirty-one
Muslims were convicted for the
incident and conspiracy.
’S
ALL
THAN
K

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HOW DOES

Religion practices a set of

This is one of the most

Since religion is a source of

Religion was developed from a

Prophets People were inspired

Some religions often

• Religion can be a source

• Wars have been

• Karl Max said, “Religion is

• Catholic church claimed that the

During the cholera

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