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How Far Do You Think Observing a Visible Religious Activity, Such as a Festival, Can Help You Understand the Part a Religion Plays in the Life of an Individual or a Community?
Title: How Far Do You Think Observing a Visible Religious Activity, Such as a Festival, Can Help You Understand the Part a Religion Plays in the Life of an Individual or a Community?
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How Far Do You Think Observing a Visible Religious Activity, Such as a Festival, Can Help You Understand the Part a Religion Plays in the Life of an Individual or a Community?
To fully understand the part a religion plays in the life of an individual or a community, I would suggest that we need to examine it from several different points of view, only some of which can be addressed by observing a visible religious activity.
Using Ninian Smart's 'dimensional model' as a starting point, we can examine the different dimensions of a religion and discover how much insight into each of them the observation of …showed first 75 words of 1208 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1208 total…part a religion plays in the life of an individual or community, and some would argue that even Ninian Smart's
dimensional model offers us a less than complete picture. Still, it seems clear that to gain any kind of understanding of the part a religion plays in the life of an individual or a community we need to take a much broader view than that offered by the observation of a visible religious activity alone.
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