General Character Of Religion
Scope Note
Conception of what constitutes religion; differentiation of the sacred and the profane; distinctions drawn between religion and superstition; relation of religion to the unknown and the unpredictable; relative prominence of magical and anthropomorphic elements; evidence of the expression of projective mechanisms in religious beliefs; primary orientation of the religious system (e.g., ancestor worship, nature worship, totemism, ritualism, mysticism, redemptive religion); social and individual role of religion (e.g., services and disservices); incidence of faith, indifference, and skepticism; existence of non-supernatural ideologies supported with a faith akin to that in religion (e.g., ethical systems, political philosophies); etc.
- Broader Term
- 770 Religious Beliefs
- Related Terms
- 150 Behavior Processes And Personality
- 182 Functional/adaptational Interpretations
- 577 Ethics
- 769 Cult Of The Dead
- 779 Theological Systems
- 789 Magic
- 795 Religious Denominations
- 812 Philosophy
- 829 Ethnosociology
- 869 Transmission Of Beliefs
- Use Fors
- Affiliation, religious
- Agnosticism
- Animism (general description)
- Anthropomorphism (religion)
- Atheism (incidence)
- Beliefs (general character of religion)
- Buddhism (general characteristics)
- Buddhism (primary religious affiliation)
- Hinduism (general)
- Impiety (occurrence)
- Jewish religion (general character)
- Magical elements in religion
- Mysticism (general orientation of religion)
- Nature worship
- Nature worship (core religious belief)
- Profane and sacred (differentiation)
- Religious affiliation
- Religious superstitions
- Religious syncretism
- Ritualism (a characteristic of religion)
- Sacred and profane (ideas about)
- Skepticism (religious)
- Spiritualism
- Superstition and religion (distinctions between)
- Totemism (general)
- Worship of nature (core religious belief)
- Zen Buddhism
- Identifier
- 771
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