Describe a methodology for the study of religion using all the tools and methods necessary for religion?

Answer 1

Just sit.
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Answer 2

I use the following methodology:

1. Human beings create language, perspective, and "common beliefs". Therefore, religions and religious books are a man-made creations.

2. No religion appears "out of a vacuum". All faith systems were a reaction to a difficulty that the particular culture had with their faith system. Therefore, religion is mostly a social construct, containing elements of belief systems common to what was familiar to individuals in the order. These "borrowed beliefs" can be easily pinpointed by studying the location and time period of the religion's creation stages.

3. A hypothesis on the origins of a religion requires a great deal of "concrete evidence". Religious texts are theological documents, not historical documents.

Answer 3

Universal

Answer 4

Sounds like a homework question.

And it really needs a book, anyway.
At least an essay. This one:
"Meditation in a tool shed", by C S Lewis.
It's available as a PDF. (below)

Can you study a religion from the outside and really say you know it? But if you are inside it, your whole perspective is altered!

Answer 5

Lex orandi, lex credendi (Latin loosely translatable as the law of prayer is the law of belief)

The relationship between worship and belief, and is an ancient Christian principle which provided a measure for developing the ancient Christian creeds, the canon of scripture and other doctrinal matters based on the prayer texts of the Church, that is, the Church's liturgy. In the Early Church there were about 300 years of liturgical tradition before there was a creed and about 350 years before there was a biblical canon. These liturgical traditions provided the theological framework for establishing the creeds and canon

Answer 6

Teleology- What is the end that is to be reached by a practitioner?
Methodology- How does a practitioner practice toward attaining the goal (medititation, prayer, etc.)?
Ontology- What is the nature of reality in this tradition?
Epistemology- What is knowledge, how can it be gained in this tradition?
Theology- (if applicable) What are the attributes of God in this tradition?

Answer 7

A Theologoical minded church's teachings must be Christ
centred, on the Biblical teachings of the Bible;

and the Bible it's number one teaching tool.

Answer 8

Far too many crimes - heinous crimes - have been committed and are being committed in the name of religion. I pray that people would stop studying religion. Only God has the answers to all of the questions.

Answer 9

First, you need a satanometer.

Answer 10

READ THE BIBLE. GO TO CHURCH.