Module 2 - Religion & Religiosity

Question 1

What is the meaning of religion?

Answer 1

A system of beliefs and practices that guides how people live.

Question 2

What does religion offer?

Answer 2

Religion offers particular insights and understandings about life. These find expression in a variety of religious beliefs, teachings and practices.

Question 3

What are the religions of the world?

Answer 3

Gatherings of people who share common beliefs about their experiences of a God or gods.

Question 4

What does it mean to be religious?

Answer 4

Being religious requires an understanding of a particular religion and a willingness to consider a range of different ‘measures of religiosity’.

Question 5

What are some indicators of being religious?

Answer 5

• How frequently a person practice elements of a religious way of life
• What a person says they believe in and how their behaviour matches the beliefs of that religion
• Religious participation, adherence, observance, practice and identity.

Question 6

What are the main characteristics of a religion?

Answer 6

Religious, belief, teaching, writings, rituals, practice, celebrations, leaders, laws and sacred places.

Question 7

What are examples of some world religions?

Answer 7

• Buddhism
• Islam
• Hinduism

Question 8

What role does religion play in the search for meaning?

Answer 8

In the search for meaning people encounter and respond to different answers. Many people come to recognise that what they search for is answered in the presence of the divine. All religions place the experience of the divine at their centre.

Question 9

How do followers express their religion?

Answer 9

Followers of each religion also come together to express aspects of their religion through worship, celebrations, rituals, and by observing special events and seasons.

Question 10

What are the characteristics of a religion?

Answer 10

1. Develop particular ideas about their God/s
2. Share common understandings about basic human questions (purpose of life, life after death)
3. Share memories handed down through gens
4. Worship, using common rituals/prayers
5. Develop codes of behaviour based on understanding of how divine expects them to behave

Question 11

Why may people ignore the existence of God?

Answer 11

1. Secularism
2. Atheism
3. Agnosticism
4. Humanism

Question 12

What is the purpose of Catholic religion?

Answer 12

To promote, support and develop within each person their ability to listen to, be in touch with and respond to their questions of the human heart.

Question 13

What are the pillars of the Catholic faith?

Answer 13

1. The Creed - support way people think/behave
2. The 10 Commandments - provide guidance for daily living
3. The Sacraments - Christians come together to celebrate faith & encounter God in community
4. The Lord’s Prayer - Providing prayer as way of experiencing God.

Question 14

How do the pillars of the Catholic faith benefit people?

Answer 14

They contribute to the personal, religious development of a person and can occur at both an individual and community level.

Question 15

What is a religious belief?

Answer 15

A conviction about an idea central to a religion that expresses a religious truth. They offer particular insights and understandings about life.

Question 16

What is a religious teaching?

Answer 16

An official statement of a religious belief. They guide and inform how people respond to religious belief.

Question 17

What are religious writings?

Answer 17

Include stories, poems, hymns, wise sayings etc.
- Related to significant teachings of a religion

Question 18

What are religious rituals?

Answer 18

Use symbolic actions, such as movement, gestures and words to express and promote what is important about faith

Question 19

What is a religious practice?

Answer 19

A recognised way of doing something religious. Refer to a broad range of experiences that relate to many aspects of religious life. Will often use religious signs and symbols.

Question 20

What is a religious celebration?

Answer 20

Special times when religious communities join together in worship, prayer or to celebrate a religious festival

Question 21

What is a sacred place?

Answer 21

Special and sacred places to communicate with God.

Question 22

What is a religious leader?

Answer 22

Particular people expected to play special roles to help the general community to relate with God.
- Role is to teach others different ways of communicating with God.

Question 23

What is a religious law?

Answer 23

Codes of behaviour that help people avoid doing anything that will damage their relationship with God.

Question 24

Identify 3 beliefs of Catholicism

Answer 24

1. The Holy Trinity
2. The Assumption of Mary
3. Immaculate Conception

Question 25

Identify 3 teachings of Catholicism

Answer 25

1. Common Good 2. Human Dignity 3. Catholic Social Teachings

Question 26

Identify 3 rituals of Catholicism

Answer 26

1. Sacraments 2. Sign of the Cross 3. Prayers

Question 27

Identify 3 practices of Catholicism

Answer 27

1. Mass 2. Prayer 3. Fasting

Question 28

Identify 3 writings of Catholicism

Answer 28

1. The Catholic Bible 2. Papal Documents 3. Catechism

Question 29

Identify 3 Sacred Places of Catholicism

Answer 29

1. Vatican City - Rome, Home of the Pope 2. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre - Jerusalem, Where Jesus was supposedly crucified 3. Church/Cathedral/Chapel

Question 30

Identify 3 celebrations of Catholicism

Answer 30

1. Christmas 2. Easter 3. Feast Days

Question 31

Identify 3 leaders of Catholicism

Answer 31

1. Pope Leo XIV 2. Cardinal 3. Bishops

Question 32

Identify 2 laws of Catholicism

Answer 32

1. The Ten Commandments 2. Constitutions of the Church