Tuesday, June 7, 2011

The History of Religion

What is religion?
It is the worship of a God or gods, guidlines about how to behave and answers to lifes biggest questions.



What are beliefs?

Confidence in the truth or existence of something not immediately obvious.


Animism- Earliest kind of religion. Animists believe that humans and animals (and sometimes even plants and rocks) have a soul or spirit



Polytheism- things in nature became more and more personified until they were eventually thought of as being gods and given specific names. Eg. Ancient Egyptians.



Pantheism- belief that everything is part os a god



Monotheism- belief in only one God



Agnosticism- uncertainty about God or gods



Atheism- belief in no gods.