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SSA2206 Lecture 2 Characteristics - of - Religious - Orientation 2016 - 15082016142315168
SSA2206 Lecture 2 Characteristics - of - Religious - Orientation 2016 - 15082016142315168
Mode of thinking
Universal tendency to cling to old
ways of life
Ambivalence, fear and reluctance to
change
Emotional/irrational/ unconscious
Cont…
Reactive and predictable
Manifested in many areas of life. Not
orientations
Dominant in societies where change is
slow
Function to maintain the status quo
Traditionalism as a religious
orientation
Reverence for selective religious
traditions of pious savants of the past
Religious traditions transmitted from
the past are deemed complete,
infallible and immutable
Unquestioning acceptance of the
certainty of religious traditions
Cont…
Strong sense of “obligatoriness” -of the
necessity of believing rather that what is
believed
Return to tradition is the rallying call and
emphasis
Over-glorification of the past
Cont…
Non-distinction between religious
teachings which are conditioned by
socio-historical epochs and their
eternal, absolute underlying principles
and rituals
Fear of “deviant teachings” and moral
social problems
Cont…
Attitude towards change and reform(gender
roles, modern institutions and scientific
discoveries egs education of girls, sighting
of the moon, modern scientific knowledge,
western education, organ donation,
usury/interest, rethinking Shariah law etc.)
Respond to change on basis of exigency
Cont….
Non-integration/dichotomy between the
hereafter and the world (this world verses
afterlife, materialism verses spiritualism,
religion verses secular) and the quest for
balance
Preoccupation with afterlife (sin and
piety