Doctrines
These organize, structure, and codify belief
Belief
What structures the way we interpret the world
Myth
Stories about the sacred
Ritual
Symbolic actions designed to manipulate the sacred
Institutions
Responsible for teaching and maintaining religious traditions
Human condition
To know, become, or Cleve to the sacred
Sacred
Provides order, being, purpose, value, meaning, etc.
Symbol
Material things that at once (re)present and are windows to the sacred
Ethics
Statements telling how to and how not to treat others
Integrated existence
The kind of world we are “thrown into”