RELIGION
Latin religio originally meant ______?
‘obligation, bond’
RELIGION:
Derived from the verb “religare”
to tie back, to tie tight
“Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine
commands
Immanuel Kant
“Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a
Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding
moral relations with mankind.”
Harriet Martineau
“Religion is that which grows out of, and gives expression to, experience of the holy in its various aspects.”
Rudolph Otto
“Religion is that which grows out of, and gives expression to, experience of the holy in its various aspects.”
Emile Durkheim
Religion is comparable to childhood neurosis
Sigmund Freud
“Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate
concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as
preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the
question of the meaning of life.”
Paul Tillich
“The essence of religion consists in the feeling of
absolute dependance
Friedrich Schleiermach