Aspects of Religion

Compilations of oral and written literature where essential parts of the religion are recorded.

• Myths and tories

• Bibles

• Scriptures

• Texts

Abstract principles by which a person, action or thing can stand for something else.

• Symbols

• Myths and Stories

• Ethics and Moral Codes

• Beliefs

Sacred practices that facilitate access to Ultimate Reality and affirm beliefs for adherents.

• Spiritual Experience

• Mass Attendance

• Meditation

• Beliefs

Articles of faith that are thought by adherents to be true or evident.

• Faith

• Ethics

• Beliefs

• Sacred Texts

An established social model to which society conforms.

• Church Teachings

• Social Structure

• Codes of Behaviour

• Rituals

The materials for creating the sacred experiences of the other aspects.

• Religious Buildings

• Rituals

• Spaces, Places, Artifacts and Times

• Symbols

Religious or other formal ceremonies that are performed according to a prescribed order.

• Sacred Texts

• Social Structures

• Mass

• Rituals

Visionary ideals or specific attributes of a perfect world.

• Ethics

• Myths and Stories

• 10 Commandments

• Catechism Teachings

Relate in imaginative detail a truth through historiography, legends, parables and folklore.

• Ethics and Codes of Behaviour

• Sacred Stories

• Symbols

• Sacred Texts

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• Symbol

• Sacred Story

• Ethics

• Social Structure