Thursday, September 02, 2004

Five Components of a Religion

From an analytical framework viewpoint a region may be seen to have five components.

  1. Rituals

  2. Beliefs and Myths

  3. Social Law and Order (including politics)

  4. philosophy

  5. Spirituality


All religions have a Manual (like Bible, Koran, Vedas) which cover mostly all the five aspects other than political structure, which is usually unstated.