The Eight Types By R 2 The Eight
The Eight Types By R 2
The Eight Types. . . • The eight types were developed by Australians Basil Moore and Norman Habe. They are a classification based approach. • The eight types is considered a typological approach which is an approach to the study of religion using eight categories or classification, which usually begins by studying at home. • Despite similarity to Ninian Smarts dimensions, its purpose was to encourage people to investigate the se religions within their home.
Type 1. Religious Beliefs • This refers to the statement about the realities of the sacred universe, its structure and how the supernatural interact with the mundane forces in the universe. • It is also more commonly known as the attitude towards mythological, supernatural, or spiritual aspects of a religion.
Type 2. Religious Experience • The structured way the adherents enter into relations with the supernatural within the context of the religion.
Type 3. Sacred Stories • Sacred are the traditional narratives told in a religious context which reveal a sacred reality, moment or truth through the components, structure and the telling of the stories.
Type 4. Sacred Text • In comparison to Type 4, sacred texts are authorized scripts, documents or books claiming to derive their basic authority from a supernatural source, which is meant to mediate and communicate truth necessary to life or salvation. • A classic example of sacred text would be the Bible
Type 5. Sacred Ritual • This is the traditional sequence of communal actions in which there is sacred purpose that is achieved through the interplay between the supernatural and mundane worlds.
Type 6. Social Structure • Is the institutionalized visible forms that express and maintain life of the religious community
Type 7. Ethics • The concerns of religions regarding appropriate social behaviour within the context of a particularly religious tradition such as breaking one of the 10 commandments in Christian religion would be regarded as extremely sinful.
Type 7. Religious Symbols • The traditional marks, objects, gestures, words, characters or events that import to meditate and communicate some sacred reality that the symbol, at a purely natural level, does not possess.
Positives of using the Eight Types • A Classification based approach acts as a good introduction to different religions • Can help to detail specific elements of the religion
Negatives of using the eight types • These Eight Types only cover a surface level analysis therefore should not be used as a comparison tool. • For people who's minds extend beyond categories, The Eight Types can just become a frustrating exercise that doesn’t give an in -depth knowledge about the religion. • Once something is categorized a limit is set upon it the richer meaning may be missed. • Categorizing requires only very little skill in analysis
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