Transcription of Basic Characteristics of Religion
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Basic Characteristics of ReligionElements of ReligionSoteriological (having to do with salvation): Post-archaic reli-gions are schemes of salvation, concerned with the source,nature, and appropriate methods of removal of some evil be-lieved to afflict humans. Most religions are equally concernedwith the achievement of blessedness, release, or fulfillment thattranscends evil, in either this world or the next, or possiblyboth. Salvation is one of the Basic concerns of (the rationalization of Religion ): Theology dealswith the nature of supreme being, or whatever functions in thereligion as the source of supreme validity. Gods are objects ofreligious devotion and practice, and only secondarily are re-garded as conceptions or hypothetical entities to be treated withspeculative interest.
Émile Durkheim — "Religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things which unite into one single moral community called a church, all those who adhere to them." This is a functional definition, focused on the moral unification function of religion. Sigmund Freud — “Religion is a collective neurosis.”
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