REVIEW OF THE PREVIOUS MODULE Direction. Based on your previous knowledge, define the word "religion" in 3-5 sentences. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.
Religion is a social-cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements; however, there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion. Religion is a social-cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements.
They almost always include a well developed cosmology, a dogma, and a doctrine.
Some religions involve the worship of a deity or deities, while others do not.
Many secular belief systems acquire religious characteristics and are included in most catalogues of belief systems. The distinction between a religion and a secular ideology is the expectation that a tenet of the belief system be taken on faith, part of a trust-based world view.
However, there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.
History & Background
Religion is part of many sophonts' lives, including many human cultures. by the year 1105 TI, many ancient Terran, Vilani, and Zhodani religious belief systems survived. Other species such as Aslan with their Violent Monoculturism and the K'kree with their Communal Anti-Carnivorism philosophies, have less religious diversity. Noone is quite sure what the Hivers really believe, but some of it may be religious. Hivers certainly seem to believe in forms of altruism commonly called Hiver Altruism.
