Religion


This includes areas of study corresponding to systems of belief, religious practice, and religious organization. It also includes particular religions, such as Christianity and Buddhism.	Sapience Home Site map About Sapience Institutions Religious Belief Religious Practice Religious Organization Religious Traditions

This includes areas of study corresponding to systems of belief, religious practice, and religious organization. It also includes particular religions, such as Christianity and Buddhism.

Institutions

Religious Belief

Categories of religious belief will be examined as more information is added to the knowlede base.

Religious Practice

Categories of religious practice will be examined as more information is added to the knowledge base.

Religious Organization

This will include such things as priesthoods and clergy, monasteries, and religious orders.

Religions of the World

This includes Abrahamic religion, Asiatic religion, pagan religion, and secularism.


Science Physics, chemistry, and astronomy may be useful. Earth science including geology, hydrospheric science, atmospheric science, and physical geography may be useful. Geohistory including Precambrian geology, Paleozoic geology, Mesozoic geology, and Cenozoic geology can be connected. Biology including molecular biology, cell biology, organism biology, systematics, and ecology can be connected. Biohistory including Precambrian biology, Paleozoic biology, Mesozoic biology, and Cenozoic biology can be connected.	Links to other sites Virtual Religion Index Religion gateway Academic Info Religion Religions Religious studies page Adherents.com Religion statistics The treatment of religion on this site is in excellent agreement with the approach intended for Sapience.
Personal studies The human body, including body systems, disease, life cycle, and appearance, is an important part of religion. Psychology including sensation and perception, consciousness, behavior, mind, mental illness, and personality will be useful in studies of religion. Biography includes important figures associated with religion including: Mohammed Newton Jesus Buddha Confucius Paul Gutenberg Columbus Galileo Aristotle Moses Darwin Shih Huang Ti Augustus Copernicus Lavoisier Constantine Luther Washington Marx Genghis Khan Adam Smith Shakespeare Dalton Alexander Napoleon Anthropology The connections with social foundations including social presentation, social interaction, social control, social group behavior, and social group types are likely to be significant. Demography including birth, migration, death, population size and structure, and population change have some bearing on religion. Parts of physical anthropology including human origins, racial variation, and human dispersion pose a challenge to some religious beliefs. Human ecology including the influence of nature on people, other life forms, and of people on nature is also significant. Human geography including European, African, North American, South American, and Oceanic geography has had a significant influence on religion. Asian geography including Southwest Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, and North Asia will be useful. Particular groups are also likely to be significant. Culture Material culture including foodstuffs, clothing, buildings, transportation and communication devices, tools, and other artifacts is important. Foodstuffs including agricultural products, processed and preservef food, and prepared food will be significant. Conceptual culture including mathematics is also useful. Religion is tied to Language including linguistics, writing, and languages of the world. Graphic arts such as drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, computer graphics will be useful to religion. Literature with oral tradition, literary forms, literary types, and particular literary works is highly important. Applied science including measurement, engineering science, navigation, medical science, information and computing science, accounting, and applied social science can be considered. Religion is closely linked with philosophy, including such subjects as metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, epistemology, and philosophical schools and doctrines. Behavioral culture is important. Customs including vital customs, living and dwelling customs, dress and adornment customs, social interaction customs, and institutional customs are useful. Occupations including food-related, building-related, transportation, communication, and industrial occupations are important, but service-related occupations are most significant. Parts of what I generally classify as recreation and entertainment including performing arts, games, and sports are religious in nature. Cultural events including miscellanous events, gatherings, holidays, and disasters are connected. Other institutions The connections with families including marriage, parent-child relations, kinship, and particular families are close. Connections with education including teaching and research can be made. Cultural institutions including museums, libraries, and venues can be considered. Educational organization including course material, students, teachers, and administration can be connected. and schools including primary schools, secondary schools, and higher education are also important. The connection of religion with economics is not well studied, although economic activities including production, distribution and exchange, and comsumption may be connected. Industries including companies, agriculture, extraction and manufacuring, constrution, transportation, communication, social and medical services, and commercial and financial services may be useful. companies, and economic systems including firms, networks, types of systems, and economic system behavior may be connected. The connections with government are quite significant. Law including tribal law, asiatic law, Western law, and international law can be connected. Government structure including political parties and interest groups, judicial systems, legistlative systems, executive systems, heads of state, and forms of governmetn can be connected. Government activity including administration, succession, and state relations is connected to religion. Particular governments including local and national government are also significant. Most religion seems to be only indirectly affected by international government. Traditional empires and colonial empires have been connected to various degrees by religion. Modern compacts such as temporary alliances, special purpose organizations, regional organizations, and world government do not seem to have an obvious connection. Sociology Social structure and change will be useful in examining religion. Social structure including anthropological structure, cultural structure, institutional structure, class structure, and community and regional structure will be useful. There may be a correlation between religion and social types such as hunting and gathering, horticultural societies, agrarian societies, and industrial societies Social change will also be useful. Factors such as natural change, demographic change, cultural change, and institutional change will be significant. Social change processes including innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be considered. Particular movements such as the agricultural revolution, agrarian revolution, and industrial revolution will also be important. Those communities for which I have begun to consider religion are mentioned below under the peoples they belong to. [Shenzhen]. The peoples of the world each have a dominant religion or religious outlook. A few nations can be examined individually. [South Africa, Colombia, Sudan, Spain, Argentina, Poland, Tanzania, Kenya, Morocco, Canada, Algeria, Afghanistan, Peru, Nepal, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Venezuela. Malaysia, North Korea, Taiwan, Ghana, Romania, Yemen, Australia, Sri Lanka, Mozambique, Syria, Madagascar, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Netherlands, Chile, Kazakhstan, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Ecuador, Malawi, Niger, Guatemala, Zzimbabwe, Angola, Senegal, Mali, Zambia] Western civilization, though once pagan, has mostly adopted the abrahamic tradition, although secularism has become more prominent in recent centuries. Beliefs, practices, and organization are fairly diverse and highly complex. [Nations include Ukraine] Religion of Anglic peoples is being examined first. This includes Anglo-American peoples such as those of the United States, United Kingdom, Canadian, and British Caribbean peoples, the British, and Anglo-Australians. Cities such as New York City, Los Angeles, and London are significant. Latin peoples including those of Italy, with cities such as Mexico City, Sao Paulo , Buenos Aires, and Rio de Janeiro can be considered. French peoples such as those of France can be considered. Hispanic peoples including those of Mexico can be considered. Lusitanic peoples including those of Brazil can be connected. Northeast Europeans such as those of Russia and cities such as Moscow can also be considered Germanic peoples including those of Germany, Balkans, and Scandinavians will also be considered. The Asiatic peoples in general have not adopted Abrahamic religion, and retain their own traditions. Myanmar is significant.] Middle Eastern peoples including those of Egypt, Turkey, and Iran, and cities such as Cairo, Tehran, and Istanbul are an exception, as Abrahamic religion originated and is still strong here. South Asian peoples including those of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh and cities such as Bombay, Delhi, Calcutta, Karachi, and Dacca are highly religious.Central Asian peoples have various tendencies. Oriental peoples including those of China, Japan, and South Korea have been important. Cities include Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai, Osaka, and Beijing. Southeast Asian peoples including Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand, and cities such as Jakarta and Manila also have strong connections to religion. and African peoples such as those of and Congo and cities such as Lagos are largely pagan but have been adopting abrahamic religion. Peoples of East Africa such as those of Ethiopia can be examined. Those of West Africa including Nigeria can be examined. The American Indian peoples have partly adopted abrahamic religion mixed with pagan traditions. Mexico,can be considered. South American peoples including those found Brazil can be considered. North American peoples including those found in the United States can also be considered. History The origins of religion are lost in prehistory, but can be followed to an increasing extent in antiquity, classical and medieval history, modern history, and can be connected to the future.

Science

Physics, chemistry, and astronomy may be useful.

Earth science including geology, hydrospheric science, atmospheric science, and physical geography may be useful. Geohistory including Precambrian geology, Paleozoic geology, Mesozoic geology, and Cenozoic geology can be connected.

Biology including molecular biology, cell biology, organism biology, systematics, and ecology can be connected. Biohistory including Precambrian biology, Paleozoic biology, Mesozoic biology, and Cenozoic biology can be connected.

Links to other sites
Virtual Religion Index
Religion gateway Academic Info
Religion Religions Religious studies page
Adherents.com Religion statistics The treatment of religion on this site is in excellent agreement with the approach intended for Sapience.

Personal studies

The human body, including body systems, disease, life cycle, and appearance, is an important part of religion. Psychology including sensation and perception, consciousness, behavior, mind, mental illness, and personality will be useful in studies of religion. Biography includes important figures associated with religion including:

Anthropology

The connections with social foundations including social presentation, social interaction, social control, social group behavior, and social group types are likely to be significant. Demography including birth, migration, death, population size and structure, and population change have some bearing on religion. Parts of physical anthropology including human origins, racial variation, and human dispersion pose a challenge to some religious beliefs. Human ecology including the influence of nature on people, other life forms, and of people on nature is also significant. Human geography including European, African, North American, South American, and Oceanic geography has had a significant influence on religion. Asian geography including Southwest Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, and North Asia will be useful. Particular groups are also likely to be significant.

Culture

Material culture including foodstuffs, clothing, buildings, transportation and communication devices, tools, and other artifacts is important. Foodstuffs including agricultural products, processed and preservef food, and prepared food will be significant.

Conceptual culture including mathematics is also useful. Religion is tied to Language including linguistics, writing, and languages of the world. Graphic arts such as drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, computer graphics will be useful to religion. Literature with oral tradition, literary forms, literary types, and particular literary works is highly important. Applied science including measurement, engineering science, navigation, medical science, information and computing science, accounting, and applied social science can be considered. Religion is closely linked with philosophy, including such subjects as metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, epistemology, and philosophical schools and doctrines.

Behavioral culture is important. Customs including vital customs, living and dwelling customs, dress and adornment customs, social interaction customs, and institutional customs are useful. Occupations including food-related, building-related, transportation, communication, and industrial occupations are important, but service-related occupations are most significant. Parts of what I generally classify as recreation and entertainment including performing arts, games, and sports are religious in nature. Cultural events including miscellanous events, gatherings, holidays, and disasters are connected.

Other institutions

The connections with families including marriage, parent-child relations, kinship, and particular families are close.

Connections with education including teaching and research can be made. Cultural institutions including museums, libraries, and venues can be considered. Educational organization including course material, students, teachers, and administration can be connected. and schools including primary schools, secondary schools, and higher education are also important.

The connection of religion with economics is not well studied, although economic activities including production, distribution and exchange, and comsumption may be connected. Industries including companies, agriculture, extraction and manufacuring, constrution, transportation, communication, social and medical services, and commercial and financial services may be useful. companies, and economic systems including firms, networks, types of systems, and economic system behavior may be connected.

The connections with government are quite significant. Law including tribal law, asiatic law, Western law, and international law can be connected. Government structure including political parties and interest groups, judicial systems, legistlative systems, executive systems, heads of state, and forms of governmetn can be connected. Government activity including administration, succession, and state relations is connected to religion. Particular governments including local and national government are also significant. Most religion seems to be only indirectly affected by international government. Traditional empires and colonial empires have been connected to various degrees by religion. Modern compacts such as temporary alliances, special purpose organizations, regional organizations, and world government do not seem to have an obvious connection.

Sociology

Social structure and change will be useful in examining religion. Social structure including anthropological structure, cultural structure, institutional structure, class structure, and community and regional structure will be useful. There may be a correlation between religion and social types such as hunting and gathering, horticultural societies, agrarian societies, and industrial societies

Social change will also be useful. Factors such as natural change, demographic change, cultural change, and institutional change will be significant. Social change processes including innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be considered. Particular movements such as the agricultural revolution, agrarian revolution, and industrial revolution will also be important.

Those communities for which I have begun to consider religion are mentioned below under the peoples they belong to. [Shenzhen]. The peoples of the world each have a dominant religion or religious outlook. A few nations can be examined individually. [South Africa, Colombia, Sudan, Spain, Argentina, Poland, Tanzania, Kenya, Morocco, Canada, Algeria, Afghanistan, Peru, Nepal, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Venezuela. Malaysia, North Korea, Taiwan, Ghana, Romania, Yemen, Australia, Sri Lanka, Mozambique, Syria, Madagascar, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Netherlands, Chile, Kazakhstan, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Ecuador, Malawi, Niger, Guatemala, Zzimbabwe, Angola, Senegal, Mali, Zambia]

Western civilization, though once pagan, has mostly adopted the abrahamic tradition, although secularism has become more prominent in recent centuries. Beliefs, practices, and organization are fairly diverse and highly complex. [Nations include Ukraine] Religion of Anglic peoples is being examined first. This includes Anglo-American peoples such as those of the United States, United Kingdom, Canadian, and British Caribbean peoples, the British, and Anglo-Australians. Cities such as New York City, Los Angeles, and London are significant. Latin peoples including those of Italy, with cities such as Mexico City, Sao Paulo , Buenos Aires, and Rio de Janeiro can be considered. French peoples such as those of France can be considered. Hispanic peoples including those of Mexico can be considered. Lusitanic peoples including those of Brazil can be connected. Northeast Europeans such as those of Russia and cities such as Moscow can also be considered Germanic peoples including those of Germany, Balkans, and Scandinavians will also be considered.

The Asiatic peoples in general have not adopted Abrahamic religion, and retain their own traditions. Myanmar is significant.] Middle Eastern peoples including those of Egypt, Turkey, and Iran, and cities such as Cairo, Tehran, and Istanbul are an exception, as Abrahamic religion originated and is still strong here. South Asian peoples including those of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh and cities such as Bombay, Delhi, Calcutta, Karachi, and Dacca are highly religious.Central Asian peoples have various tendencies. Oriental peoples including those of China, Japan, and South Korea have been important. Cities include Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai, Osaka, and Beijing. Southeast Asian peoples including Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand, and cities such as Jakarta and Manila also have strong connections to religion. and

African peoples such as those of and Congo and cities such as Lagos are largely pagan but have been adopting abrahamic religion. Peoples of East Africa such as those of Ethiopia can be examined. Those of West Africa including Nigeria can be examined.

The American Indian peoples have partly adopted abrahamic religion mixed with pagan traditions. Mexico,can be considered. South American peoples including those found Brazil can be considered. North American peoples including those found in the United States can also be considered.

History

The origins of religion are lost in prehistory, but can be followed to an increasing extent in antiquity, classical and medieval history, modern history, and can be connected to the future.

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