World Religions Model of The Seven Dimensions of Religion

Over the years, some theologians and atheists have tried to design a way to further understand the complexity of the world religion (Editor Blagden, 2007). Among these methods, a model called "Seven Dimensions of Religion" was proposed by several Ninian Smart professors in his published work (Brodd, 2009, p. 9). However, by defining religion and its method of research, examining the "seven dimension" of Smart and applying it to the popular eastern religious tradition of eastern Buddhism, this model has advantages, but its advantages are When it is a considerable limit

As already pointed out, "religion" is a very competitive theme. Indeed, what religion is to say to say what religion is is not so difficult task to controversy. The seven aspects of Smart proved to be a useful starting point for understanding the characteristics of religion tend to have. However, unlike Smart, I think there is no reason to limit the seven dimensions by requiring that transcendental elements must be present. I believe that when this transcendental element unconsciously or secretly considers religion as a special category, religious scholars need to associate their theological roots with their theological roots . Therefore, I choose to abandon these theological roots and to consider religion as a culturally determined phenomenon giving meaning to people's lives. I fully recognize the difficulties and ambiguity inherent in this position and accept it. However, the current position seems to be the most appropriate position to understand the world.

In this section, we analyze the seven dimensions of Smart and then apply some capitalist specific examples to each dimension. Importantly, the reader said my interpretation of the religious aspect of Smart should be understood in mobile real estate. In fact, this is the way Smart wants to use size. Therefore, the examples I provide can be adapted properly to multidimensional even though they are presented under a specific area. It also analyzes the impact of capitalism itself and capitalism on a wider society. The reason is simple. We can not begin to understand religion without considering the social and cultural influences religion gives to people.

Please wisely be aware that there are several "religious" systems such as nationalism, Marxism, scientific humanism (1998: 22). Like the way I handle capitalism, smart applies nationalism to his seven aspects. After this process, Smart concluded as follows. "In all these respects, today's country is like a religion, then it makes sense to treat contemporary nationalism like a religion a series of values ​​(1998: 24) But for smart In terms of nationalism, or in this case dealing with religion called capitalism, the same term as religion, and secular views (secular views) In the final analysis, nationalism does not meet the requirements of what is called religion , Because of its cleverness, Islam is a model of true religion but nationalism and other secular conscious forms such as capitalism are only "religious" (Smart, 1998: 26)