[THY4] SA3 (Culture and Religion)

Asia and the Philippines

What are the melting pots of cultures in the world?

Globalization (Flattening of the World)

• made the world smaller

• accelerated Development through space and time, compresses it.

• dialogue became a necessity because of this

Reciprocal Communication (1)

Document Dialogue and Proclamation stating that dialogue:

• leads to common goal or deeper interpersonal communion

• PURELY HUMAN LEVEL

Attitude of Respect and Friendship

Document Dialogue and Proclamation stating that dialogue:

• permeates all activities constituting the evangelizing mission of the Church

• SPIRIT OF DIALOGUE

Dialogue

• contained the “Dialogue of Salvation” first initiated by God.

• part of the comprehensive evangelizing mission of Church

• may lead us to achieving harmony

• if wala to, misunderstanding + conflict + violence

Dialogue with Culture, Religion, and the Poor

In Asia, we do triple dialogue, which are?

The Trend of Migration

What is it called when people are always mobile and travelling, meaning people are forced to live alongside each other.

forced to work and migrate because of poverty, violence, war

What are the factors of mega-migration?

Refugees

What do you call forced migrants?

Inhabit, Cultivate, Protect, and Honor with Worship.

What does Latin verb “colere” mean?

Culture

• way of life of a social group

• how they cope with physical, social, and ideational environments

• society’s regularized/standardized design for living

Enculturation

• Process where culture is passed on and is learned?

• Very long process of growing into the culture to where they belong

• Partially conscious and unconscious

• based on control of older gen exercising on reward/punish of new gen

First Level

What is level of culture is through action, clothing, or transport?

Second Level

What level of culture is about symbol (LANGUAGE, myths, rite, puberty, marriage, birth, etc)

Third Level

What level of culture is about characteristic of change? Culture do evolve due to demographic development, economic laws, and climactic changes or human progress.

Fourth Level

What level of culture is there can be several subcultures?

Ethnocentrism (Culture Centrism)

What is it called when one says one’s culture is seen at the center of the world?

Cultural Relativism

What is it called when one says all cultures are relative, no differences?

World Culture

What refers to all things which go to refining/developing man’s diverse mental and physical endowments?

Human and World Flourishing

What is the goal of cultures?

Religion

What is the animating principle of culture? Culture as body, _____ as soul?

Inculturation

• The process of discovery of the seeds of the Word which lie hidden in cultures? Mutual exchange of discoveries lead to enrichment.

• Creative embodiment of the Word in the local church

Incarnation

• The theological foundation of inculturation

• Tells us that God is not afraid of using cultures to communicate with us

Interculturation (Bishop Joseph Blomjous)

What is the process of inculturation must be lived in partnership and mutuality?

Multiculturality of the World

What can be the avenue for greater space for evangelization, a privileged locus of the new evangelization?

Mega-Migration

What is the movement of people from different places in the movement of beliefs? (People carry faith and transfer it, bringing forth Multiculturality and Multireligiousity)

Religious Pluralism

What is the philosophical perspective that emphasizes:

• Diversity than Homogeneity

• Multiplicity than Unity

• Difference than Sameness

• Acknowledgement that other beliefs exist, other people can do stuff with different faiths.

Religious Relativism

This is when someone says there are no definitive truths in those beliefs, therefore no objective religious truth.

Interreligious Dialogue

What is dialogue between religions?

Ecumenism

What is the dialogue between Christian Denominations? (Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Protestant, Born Again, etc.)

Proselytism

What is the wanting someone to convert para may relasyon lang?

Dialogue of Life

What form of Dialogue talks about how people strive to live life in harmony and peace?

Dialogue of Action

What form of Dialogue talks about when people of different faiths work together for the development and liberation of the people?

Dialogue of Theological Exchange

What form of Dialogue talks about specialists that deepen each other’s religious heritage/appreciate other religion?

Dialogue of Religious Experience

What form of Dialogue talks about people rooted in their own tradition, sharing spiritual riches in prayer, contemplation, and faith.

• Jews consider old testament

• Hindus have Trinity

• Buddhists agree on contemplation/prayer

• Muslims believe in Jesus and Virgin Mary

• All believe in peace, and care for environment

What are the Common Grounds for Interreligious Dialogue?