“HENRI COANDA” AIR FORCE ACADEMY ROMANIA
“GENERAL M.R. STEFANIK” ARMED FORCES ACADEMY SLOVAK REPUBLIC
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE of SCIENTIFIC PAPER AFASES 2012 Brasov, 24-26 May 2012
THE RELIGIOUS FEELING AND MORAL VALUES. COMPARATIVE STUDIES Mihaela SANDU *; Gheorghe NADOLEANU * *
"ANDREI ŞAGUNA" UNIVERSITY, Constanţa, mihaela_psy1977@yahoo.com ARCHIEPISCOPATE OF TOMIS, Constanţa, george.nado@gmail.com
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Abstract:Before having been researched from an ethnological, historical, psycho-sociological point of view, religion - namely issues regarding its essence, origins and development - had been an object of reflection for generations of thinkers preoccupied with the inherent oscillations and nonsequiturs, what we might call a philosophy of religion. Religion is not merely a form, or a system of thought, it is a vast reality which needs to unfold the fate and the happiness of man. This is why the link between God and man must be a free one, to make room for the sanctions that reward the good or the bad deeds of men in this lifetime. It needs be a conscious one, because it is a reality that the man can only encompass with his mind and is of a spiritual nature, therefore unseen
. Key Words: sentiment, religion, values, Orthodox, Muslim.
INTRODUCTION We cannot define religion based on sociological and psychological research. From an etymological point of view, the term religion comes from a family of Latin words which initially designated certain practices related to the sacred and to which in time the faith and the theoretical aspects of religion were added 1 . • religare – Cicero said that this term denotes fulfilling one's duties towards the Gods. Lucretius defined religion as “the feeling and faith and duty towards the gods”. • relego – the word in an iterative, this meaning that religion refers to rebuilding the link with the sacred (the Quran means "to
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read", Biblos denotes “the Book”, the Mantras are fragments of poems). • religio – is translated by covenant, a covenant between the individual or the community and the sacred. • relegare – to connect, connection, it represents the connection with the divine. This connection was initially established by practices (eg: shamanism is a system of practices). Later, the word religion added, associated the spiritual aspect as well, designating not only the practices, but also the faith. In the Middle Ages, the basic term was fides (faith). During this time, the practical activity shifts on a secondary plane, the term religio referring more to the monastic practice. Bearing the meaning of faith, religion can be false or true. The rebirth is what
separates the true religions (Christianity) from the false ones (superstitions).