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What is a liturgy?
A liturgy is a set form of public worship, rituals, or ceremonies practiced by a religious community. It includes the structured prayers, readings, actions, and traditions used during services such as Mass, communion, or other religious gatherings. Liturgy provides order and meaning to worship and helps participants express and celebrate their faith together.
Define culture
Is a set of meanings, beliefs, values and practices of a society.
What is a value?
A value is a belief or principle that guides the way a person thinks, behaves, and makes decisions. Values help people determine what is important, what is right or wrong, and how they want to act in the world.
What is a symbol for the sacarment of marriage?
Rings
Cleansing a person with water is a ritual for what sacrament?
Baptism
Define secularization?
Secularization is the process by which religion loses its influence over various aspects of society, such as politics, education, and everyday life. As societies become more secular, religious beliefs, practices, and institutions play a smaller role in shaping laws, social norms, and individual behaviour.
True of false- Human life is surrounded by symbols and rituals?
True
Name your top 5 values in order of importance
Wisdom, Wealth, trust, skills, power, religion, love, loyalty, knowledge, justice, honesty, health, creativity, education, success, family, job
What is a symbol? Provide 2 examples
Objects that express more than one message or meaning.
Examples: A rock – strength, transformation, hardships, beauty, durability, value
Water – peace, life, transformation, destruction, power, hydration, death
Give an example of a rite of passage
Graduation, confirmation, marriage,
What is a habit?
We understand culture as.....
Culture is the way of life of a society, a community, a family.
In Bend it like Beckham, what was the clash among cultures?
Indian culture, religion, sports culture, english culture.
Water is a symbol for what sacrament?
Baptism
Proclaiming forgiveness is a ritual for what sacrament?
Reconciliation
What is the definition of Transcendence?
Beyond or above the range of normal or merely physical human experience.
Name two cultures you belong to?
Youth, religion, your background etc.
The cycle of searching for the latest styles, the newest technology, bigger house. Malls have not become a place of worship. What is this called
Materialism and consumerism
Bread and wine is a symbol for what sacrement?
The Eucharist
What is a ritual of Remembrance Day? What does that ritual express?
The moment of silence expressed respect for all soldiers that passed away during the war and for honouring veterans that have served in the war.
Define institution and provide an example of one.
The sets of systems of meanings, beliefs, and values. An example is education, hospitals, government.
Name all 7 traits of culture
a) Humans create culture. (Example: Music)
b) Culture consists of ways of doing things. (Example: Standing up for O Canada)
c) Culture is public. (Example: Festivals)
d) Culture arises from tradition. (Example: Food restrictions, family recipe)
e) Culture is made up of rule-governed actions. (Example: Canadian laws, The 10 Commandments)
f) Culture becomes established in institutions. (Example: School, hospital)
g) Culture gives us our identity. (Example: Christians taking communion, Jewish kosher, the way their media reflects their culture)
Principles and standards of behaviour that are not based on religious doctrine but on humanistic, and naturalistic considerations of society.
Self-centeredness, immediate gratification, competition, violence, escape, quality of life.
What happens when we combine symbols and rituals in one celebration?
They become a ceremony often called a rite. Like a rite of passage, the rite of baptism
What is the effect of rituals?
Rituals are powerful and necessary traditions. They help us to do what is important for human life. They can also create great changes in our lives.