Daryl Kyle G.
Doles
Grade 12- St. Pope John Paul II Week 6
MODULE 14: RELIGION AND BELIEF SYSTEMS
What Have I Learned So Far?
1.) How does religion reflect the political dynamics of a society?
- In philosophy and political affairs, there is a general opinion on the degree of role
religion can have. People who are not practitioners of a faith prefer to find religious
power to be extreme, whereas those who are more inclined to perceive faith to be either
of the right power or to be having very little effect.
2.) Compare and contrast monotheism and polytheism.
- Monotheism believes firmly in one God, who is responsible for all the things of this
universe including the creation and life of the earth. Polytheism is characterized by the
worship of many gods, reflecting lifestyle like religions and rituals.
3.) How is animism related to environmental condition?
- Animism is linked by teachings of aboriginal people, based on the universe's divine
principle, to natural circumstances and that everything inside it can be contained, soul
and spirit, with plants, trees, and rocks. Environmental disasters and planetary
degradation are often known as the consequences of human-spirit contact.
4.) What are the different types of religious activities?
- The different types of religious activities are Magic, Divination, Sorcery and Witchcraft,
and Prayers, Feasts, and Sacrifices.
5.) How different is the popularized notion on sorcery and witchcraft from their anthropological
perspectives?
- It's odd, since witches and magic have been portrayed in the media as widely acceptable.
Nevertheless, practicing these ritual activities was generally despised and ostracized in
most communities in which witchcraft and sorcery occur, because they are considered to
be the source of malaise and misfortune.
6.) What are the characteristics of a religious institution?
- A religious organization is distinguished by a wide spectrum of religious significance, its
hierarchy and membership and codified practices.
7.) What are the social impacts of the separation of the church and the state?
- Most developing and emerging nations have required the division between the Church
and the State through the incorporation of their constitutions of prohibition clauses.
Filipinos' religious culture also allowed the religious sects to dominate this country's
political affairs.
8.) What elements differentiate religious institutions (cults) from one another?
- Human communities form various religious associations in compliance with their
society's political and economic values. This degree of sophistication is related to how
much specialization of practice is applied in society.
9.) How is the anthropological definition of cult different from a man’s perspective of the
concept?
- Anthropological definitions vary a lot from the perspective of the human being, since the
anthropological concept defines a cult as a group of people having severe religious
convictions and practices while a cult is an organized network linked with cultural
convictions and practices which make it a social structure and also a social structure.
MODULE 15: HEALTH
What Have I Learned So Far?
1.) What is structural violence?
- Structural violence is the systemic process of putting several sectors of society in greater
vulnerability to dreaded diseases.
2.) How can the local moral world affect the view on diseases?
- This may affect the perception of diseases by adding individuals' rationalizations of their
diseases. Such rationalizations also find their origins in their beliefs and basic standards.
Therefore, the perception of cancer by a human can range from a very medical viewpoint
to a religious one, and may view such an ill-health as a punishment from Heaven for past
transgressions.
3.) How do cultures enable the creation of group-specific diseases?
- Science provides a basic understanding of diseases. But some scientific truth on diseases
remains elusive by local understanding, while scientific findings on diseases and their
cures are large.
4.) What are the arguments on the universality of mental illness?
- Even disease symptoms can differ by culture. Overall, variations between both of these
forms of hallucinations have arisen with auditory hallucinations being the most common
and less frequent gustatory hallucinations but discrepancies between hallucination
patterns have also been identified amongst nations.
