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Basic Characteristics of Religion
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.
meaning, and form of the universe, and the place of humanity in it. A "cosmos" is a portrayal of the universe as a meaningful structure. Science studies a meaningless "universe." Religion portrays our existence as unfolding within a meaningful universe called …
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