Religious experience.

Religious experience.

            Berger’s notes that society is a product of human and human are a product of society. He points out that human create their world and create themselves. We learn that Culture is a human product with tools which shapes the environment and the person who uses it. The writer says that culture is objective, the human creates a world which is objective reality once they create a too it can’t be easily changed.eg we create language but don’t control it. Culture being object and common we have to get outside it in order to understand it. We put our subjective story in objective terms that allows it to be shared among others. Roleplaying and family from the story of Buddha religion Novice, we learn internalization. At first his role as novice is mainly external .His acting out of a role but later he truly gets identity of a monk .Internalization  is part of process that includes the externalization and objectivation  and it is the dialect. Language is an objective world that is imposed in our world. Religion is Collective of a building world here we become human being in the society .We share in building the world through language. Knowledge created by society is based on language and it gives an individual a sense of order, continuity and stability. Religious practices plunge a person or a group into experiences of anomy in order to rebuild the society.

Sacred profane, Death shows how fragile our sense of order is .It changes relationships and threatens life as an ongoing process. Social world is taken for granted but death challenges the sense of order. We order the universe through our own Nomos.Which takes greater power which can withstand change. Religion is seen as more powerful than human but related to human because it establishes the notion of sacred world a cosmos that is orderly. The word profane means ordinary things of life, the daily routine.

Sacred chaos, in religion sacred rise out of chaos human being   in daily activities tries to create both order and sacred that opposes chaos and meaning less. Religion is a way of human to think of the universe being significant in in human way. In tradition view religion is supernatural it is seen to have some beings superior than human being and are powerful and respected. It has ambiguity such that some objects on the earth might mean different to different people at different situations.e.g a tree might be seen by the age3d as a sacred place where they go to worship their God while a farmer might see the same tree as a source of livestock feed the leaves.

In Christianity

He argues that Christian theology is changing and finds itself in crisis with modernity .He advises people to turn away from this thesis and turn backwards to the inductive approach in order to overcome the impasse.in Berger’s sacred canopy experience is shaped by society .the distinction between religious experiences helps people to going  back to core experience. Actual uncovering and recoveri8ng of religious experience success has to continue inductively this may lead to Christianity being understood as of religion experience and insights deriving from experience. Berger says that the reality of Christian world depend on presence of social structures within which reality is taken for granted and generation are socialized such that the world will be real to them. The moment this plausibility loses its content ant continuity it ceases to be self-evident and loses truth. Berger also says that in certain societies, every component is of society functions to reinforce the belief system.

In Islam Re-establishing religious canopy which stabilizes life experience and provides share public meaning can only be very circumscribed in both social and religious terms. The same image used by media to cannot Islamic presence, mosque, dress are used by Muslims to signify identity and culture.

Buddhism

The condition of the human organism in the world is characterized by a built in instability .Man does not have given given relationship to the world .He must on going establish relationship with it. Human and other forms and projects rise and fall, human being hopes for an order, a society. “Religion is the audacious attempt to conceive of the entire universe as being humanly significant Religion is the audacious attempt to conceive of the entire universe as being humanly significant ”According to Berger.  Hinduism, Novice 8 years who had is head shaved took the 10 precepts, and received robes, while he was a child others would teach him how to be a good novice. After 10 years of training he become a young man and would like to take full ordination and become a monk.

Religion transforms the nature, attributes and behaviors of an individual claim these ancient texts of Hindu philosophy. For example, according to Naradaparivrajaka Upanishad, the liberated individual shows attributes such he is not bothered by disrespect and endures cruel words, treats others with respect regardless of how others treat him.

Work cited

Berger, Peter L., and Thomas Luck Mann. “The heretical imperative: Contemporary possibilities of religious affirmation.” (1981).

Hopkins, Thomas J. The Hindu religious tradition. Wadsworth Pub. Co.1971.

Sharf, Robert H. “Buddhist modernism and the rhetoric of meditative experience.” Numen 42.3 (1995): 228-283.

Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro. Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist. Courier Corporation, 2002.