Religion
Religion(Palpus float ょ う) Generally,GodBelief transcendental existence concerning those and the like which become saint andBeliefBelief and attitude of the individual who is related with belief (something with related to transcendental ones) activity (worship etc. the) system (Temple corporationChurchAnd so on) the society and the like which the believer forms is displayed.
Origin of a word
"Religion"Origin of a wordWhen the language which hits to the meaning language of Religion in the last days of the shogunate period becomes necessary, it is the language which is adopted as the language which points to the generality religion. GenerallyMeijiIt spread to first stage. As for the word Religion which becomes this cause,LatinIt is the language which it occurs from word religare. Religare it is the word, "thing which participates originally and the thing which is connected", when connecting the human and God from there (the edge) it means you had understood.
Before the beach (2003) according to, the fact that the language of Religion first is translated was in the Japanese-American learning/repairing Yosimiti trade treaty, could apply to meaning language language of doctrine and sect method. To in addition to, from the last days of the shogunate when it follows to that applying in Meiji beginning, we assume that religion, sect, doctrine method teaching and legal teaching, the teaching gate, you can verify shintoism and the saintly road etc., as the meaning language which is used between. Inside this, "doctrine" and "sect" and so on the language which includes religion practice is more widely used, "teaching method" and the "saintly road" and so on, than the language where the meaning being agreeable of idea and doctrine is strong generally, that corresponds to being something where religion is related with practice deeply for many Japanese. Language "of religion" is the language where the meaning being agreeable of doctrine is stronger than practice, but it assumes that with theory before the beach there is diplomatic action and an elite layer and the Western conversion etc. of sense of value of the intellectual which were done with process of the Japanese western conversion in the background which is decided that that kind of meaning language finally becomes fixed.
Quality of constitution elements of religion
Is not something to which definition of religion changes the later mentioned sort with when it is used, can do strict definition, but general tendency exists. As a tendency, the following it can point out the points.
- Tendency as a religion organization
- There is an object of belief and a doctrine which stipulates contents.
- There is a teaching group which is the believer group for believing which you follow doctrine and commandment together.
- There is a commandment which is the prohibition item which it should protect as proof of belief.
- It does with year's regular functions and the process of life which are located in the calendarRite of passageAnd so on the ceremony is done.
- It has the symbol symbol which becomes feature of the religion.
- How to think concerning phenomenon
- It is similar to that, explanation concerning existence and the power which do not remain by his well does not know as mind whether God. When this seems that is called personality God, is the person of existence it is when and, it is the existence which is similar to the human well, it is and * ]? ヌ prefectu. When it is the natural function very thing, it is when and, it is unique abstract concept such as destiny, luck, luck and heaven punishment, it is. Such explanation, in many cases, includes explanation concerning "the nature" is what.
- Approaching, such existence and power such as praying and ceremonial courtesy, in order for phenomenon to desire by your, explanation concerning the expedient in order to try to advance. With many religions, sense of the reverence for such existence and power is explained. The existence which is superior in a some sense than the human, depending upon when the permission and mercy and the favoring are begged as all the intellectual omnipotent existence, when or you ask, it is not little. This the point where being awe-struck and praying are not needed the occasion where it develops as by your think phenomenon in science, making use of the nature and physical law and forms good contrast.
- Explanation concerning the expedient in order to know, the trend of such existence and power such as fortune-telling and divine message.
- The illness, death, natural disaster, harvesting and the weather, and so on is what, explanation concerning how it visits.
- Method of operating the life of group and individual. Celebration, celebration, ceremony, praying and taboo, and so on.
- Explanation life and death, the postmortem world, and so on concerning.
- Explanation concerning the rewarding which is given vis-a-vis good conduct and evildoing.
- Explanation start and end, the sky and the ground of time and the actual condition of the beginning and form, the star and the sun and month of the sea, concerning the beginning and end of the world.
- What does not have to be done, something is important sense of value and world view (sense of value in life and society whether, and so on, it stipulates, world view, as for this world it does some kind of formation, those which display the method of thinking of expressing concerning.)
- Belief object
- Belief natural ones, the past person, the ancestor and personality God, concerning the symbolize existence and the like of cause and effect and the like
- Religion experience
- The religion experience mysterious experience which passes through training and courtesy etc.
In belief contents, how to think usually, concerning the order of the kind of world which does not become the object of verification with science and the meaning etc. of existence of the human
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教祖 信者 宗教家 宗教番組 オウム真理教 尊師マーチ-* 宗教歌 外部リンク 宗教情報アーカイブARI(宗教リンク集) オープンディレクトリー : 社会 : 宗教・精神世界 心の法則研究所 宗教リンク集 参考文献 磯前順一(2003). 近代日本の宗教言説とその系譜: 宗教・国家・神道. 岩波書店.
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