Are religion and culture interrelated?

Answer 1

It should not be but it is. It should not be because religion is something to do with ones faith and way of worshiping his personal God in which he has faith.

The manner of worship is something prescribed by the religious persons concerned which may differ from country to country and from religion to religion. But the culture is something which has grown over many years of common history at a common place of stay and living.

Due to conversion, specially among the Muslims and the Christians whose clergymen insist the followers of their respective faith to dress up in a particular way with religious brand and 'civilization' as western and Islamic brand to distinguish them from their previous where from they have been hijacked by conversion. It is an artificial method to alienate them from their root culture. Culture is a natural evolution. It is directly related to the geographical and historical factors. Religion is a matter of conversion to-day. The culture is invaded by the religion adopted which has led to disharmony in the name of assimilation.

Answer 2

yes they are, and in a strange manner. In some societies and groups religion is dominant and in some societies cultural values are stronger than religion. The main thing is culture takes shape because of all the factors which affect human nature like politics, geography, weather, economy and religion. And religion is only a set of values which guides a cultural group to act in a moral way. That is also important because religion provided ethical boundaries when human race was ignorant about their rights.

Answer 3

Yes, they are. The specifics of religion are reflections of the culture they came from, and religion is shaped by culture throughout the ages.

As an example, we have recently given women the right to vote and acknowledged them as equals in this society. That's been a relatively recent development, though. Historically, women have been treated as property.

If you look at the Christian religion, you'll see that they have many values that are throwbacks to those severely patriarchal times. Christians today still believe that the man is head of the household and the woman's place is in the home having kids. However, this is changing due to pressure from today's society. There are many more liberal Christians who are taking a more modern approach to woman's place in society. However, women are still lagging some in status because of religious ideas holding them back in this culture. They've had to fight tooth and nail to get Christianity to "reinterpret" their tenets more in favor of women. There are even women in the clergy now, though it's still mostly men.

Answer 4

I believe so. Dependent upon where you are in the world, religion correlates directly with what the majority religion is. And it seems that whatever society around you accepts is where most people try to fit in. Unfortunately that is never a healthy way to go about choosing a religion or lack thereof as you become nothing more than a sheep blindly following the even more blind masses.

Answer 5

The interrelation of religion and culture is very much prevailing as methodological and theoretical approaches to the study of religion, and on religious dimensions of such domains as literature, art, history, psychology, and philosophy. We have to investigate both the religious dimensions of secular culture (for example, film and art) and traditional religions as cultural phenomena.

Religion is explored in a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary context, and critical and imaginative thinking about religion as an expression of the human condition is emphasized, along with the methodological strategies involved in undertaking such study. Recognizing that "religion" can be defined in many different ways, the program understands the category "religion" itself as an intellectually problematic and provocative concept, rather than simply as a descriptive historical, institutional, or phenomenological label.

It has not only the interdependence of religion and culture but also the insights from comparative study of the phenomena, experiences, and theories of religion. Since "western" religion does not exhaust the parameters of the concept "religion," we are required to develop expertise in the history, literature, and practice of at least one "non-western" religion.

Special emphases of the program include the relation between theology, philosophy, and contemporary critical theory; religion, psychology, and ethics; feminist theory and theology; religion and aesthetics in historical and contemporary manifestations; religion, ritual, and material culture; as well as discrete historical phenomena and movements in a variety of religious periods and traditions (Judaic, Graeco-Roman, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Native American).

it is essential to develop a comprehensive understanding of the phenomena of religion from the perspective of cross-cultural, historical, and interdisciplinary methods. Further, students are expected to develop an ability to conceptualize, analyze, and organize discrete bodies of material both in terms of a breadth of vision regarding the scope of the study of religion and also in terms of areas of disciplined and focused expertise.-

Answer 6

Yes. There is an episode in Star Trek (the old one) that I thought quite telling... a god cried lamenting his children had grown up and no longer needed him.

Answer 7

Most of the people would say yes
but they are'nt actually
They are but in a very few cases