relationship between religion and culture?

Question

an article establishing the relationship between religion and culture

Answer 1

Irreversibly intertwined.

Answer 2

Umm... I don't have any articles that establish such a relationship, but how about I tell you about my culture and religion! :D.... Well, really, the culture SHOULD be influenced on religion (if it follows one), but that's not often the case. See, many cultures don't follow their religious guidelines but live by man-made rules (I'm speaking for myself, at least), and I was born and raised into such a society. I'm a Muslim female and have finally undesrstood the truth about Islam and about women in Islam, but my culture denies women most of the rights that Islam has bestowed upon them..... Ahhh...pathetic, I know....

Answer 3

Language and religion are two of the main defining features in a culture. One of the reasons I don't like Christianity is because it suppressed and destroyed many culture's native religions in its quest for dominance. What we know of these cultures is only fragmentary and we will never be able to fully recover their rich cultural history.

Answer 4

Are you wanting an article? Then why didn't you ask for an article. Your question is not clear.

There is a relationship. The TRUTH however, is cross-cultural.

Answer 5

Not all cultures believe in religion, and alot do

Answer 6

Here are some thoughts on the subject, as well as related ideas:

So, lets start with genetics and psychology. It has been shown in modern psychology that a persons' psychological make up is determined by genetics; in fact some of the genes concerned with inherited psychological anomalies have been identified. Also, genetics can determine the ethnic group, and in some cases the actual country of origin, of a particular subject. This is proven by the fact that with only a few tissue or fluid samples, genetic testing can be done to determine the ethnicity of potential suspects of criminal acts as well as establishing parental relationships; a fact that has been a great boon to forensics experts in police departments across the globe. This fact has also been of use in genealogy to track the movements of family groups over time and many thousands of miles.

From here we move on to cultural anthropology, where we see the development of cultural diversity (i.e. the cultural development of a Celt being different from the cultural development of an Asian.) In this we see that the different cultures in the world developed along very different lines; partially due to environmental factors, but also due to the particular psychological needs of the people involved. The ways in which a people developed were in keeping with the psychological needs of said people. (Again the psychological needs of a Celt 3000 years ago were considerably different from those of an Asian of the same time period.) This extended not only into cultural and social morality and ethics, but to their systems of law as well. We also see that, as religions developed in the various cultures around the world, they developed along lines that fit in with the psychological needs of the culture within which it developed and the principles and methodologies of those indigenous religions fit the psychological requirements of their specific cultures.

Therefore, since our psychological make up is determined genetically, and since people of different ethnic groups have different psychological needs, then the moral, ethical, and religious works from outside the ethnic group of a particular person are not suited to that persons psychological make up. (Again the religious needs of a Celt 3000 years ago, or even yesterday, are different from those of an Asian of the same time period) and being forced to conform to foreign moral, ethical and religious ideas will do little more than cause severe psychological damage. THEREFORE, the most suitable religious path to follow for anyone is a path which is based on their ancestry. To do otherwise can cause such severe damage to a persons mind that they might never be able to recover. Also, since modern psychotherapy is based on ideas of normality which are based on principles only suited to those of Middle-Eastern descent, it can not be of any benefit to anyone else.

What is my proof for these ideas? Well, lets start with the fact that in THIS country, you will find only a very small percentage (less than 1 percent in fact) of the patients of all the psychologists, psychiatrists, therapists and inmates in all the mental institutions and hospitals in the United States are people of Middle-Eastern descent who are Christians, Jews, or Muslims. Nor will you find more than an infinitesimal number of Asians or East Indians who follow their own indigenous religious beliefs as patients of a similar nature either. Also, if you go to the Middle-East, Asia or India, you will find such a small percentage of the population needing any sort of psychological treatment (and most of that for those who have an actual physiological anomaly that causes their problem) so as to not even be worth further comment. So, when you put all this together, you can see, that the infliction of foreign ethical, moral, and religious principles cannot be of any benefit whatsoever to anyone accept those who are propagating the spread of such ideas, and the most beneficial path a person could follow is one which stems from their ancestry.

The ultimate expression of this principle is the idea that each persons life should be governed by the principles of their ancestral religion first and foremost. The enforcement of what are termed "secular laws" (which is a misnomer in that all laws are based on the principles of morality and ethics of the person writing them, and morality and ethics are based on the religious ideas that the person writing said laws was infused with) is responsible for the rampant psychological damage of people all over the world.

THEREFORE, it is the most logical and sensible conclusion that people should be governed by the principles of their ancestral religions and that those principles should take absolute precedence over any "secular law". Toward this end I urge all those who are here to take these ideas, apply them to your everyday lives and show that by embracing your ancestral religions you will have a better, happier, and more successful life than those who do not embrace their ancestral religions could ever hope to have.

Now here in the states we have an almost unique situation where most people are a mix of several ancestries. For example my ancestors are from Germany, Sweden, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and the Cherokee nation and the question arises for people of such mixed ancestries as to which of their ancestral ties they should follow, or should they make some attempt to amalgamate them all into a single system. The answer to that question is that attempting to amalgamate such diverse beliefs is not a good idea. One could simply learn all that is available to them and attempt to follow each tradition in as separate and complete a manner as is possible. That however would be a logistical nightmare for most and really is not feasible or advisable. Truth to tell that issue is already dealt with on a genetic level. As you investigate the various traditions to which you are linked, you will invariably find a stronger pull toward one above the others; or you may find that your own personal, untainted beliefs will be such that they are already in tune with one of your ancestral systems and it is more a matter of recognizing which system that is and learning the particulars of living in accord with it. That doesn’t mean that you should ignore the other areas of your ancestry, far from it. What this means is that because there is this mix, you will find that there are things, attitudes, ideas... beliefs... that will stem from one or another of the other ancestral ties and you should be able to recognize which area they come from and treat them accordingly.