In this report I will be covering components of religious traditions and their relationship to the sacred - its teachings, texts, doctrine, stories, myths, and others, and What a religious tradition does - worship, prayer, pilgrimage, ritual, and so forth. What actually religion traditions are and how it affects people’s life on daily basis. I will also discuss what people do believe differently from each other to keep their faith and relationship stronger with their God, and how they preform rituals of their religion. It will also include what are some conflicts in and out due to religion on each individual’s life.
As suggested by James C. Livingston “Religion on is that system of activities and beliefs directed toward that which is perceived to be of sacred value and transforming power.” Religion is sometimes a sensitive topic, and there are many religious traditions made up of different components. Religion is a collection of beliefs, cultures, and world views that relates humanity to its morals. Most of the religions have histories to explain the universe and life. In the entire world there are approximately 4200 religions. Many religions are practiced by visiting their holy places like temples, mosques or churches. Practice of religion also includes the traditions, rituals, festivals, feasts, prayers, fasting, sacrifices, and any rules or law created by religion.
There are many conflicts in trying to describe religion those are excessively imprecise and general, for example in Islam there are 2 different groups of believers “Shea” and “Sunni” the both groups have different believes and different traditions but they all believe on existence of one God and prophet Mohammed. Religion can be explained by what people had experienced years ago and what they believed carrying on to their generations according to their holy books or scared. Religion plays role on describing one’s behavior towards human kind, it builds the relationship between people to their creator. Many aspects of religion can be described how people have built up their communities to communicate with each other, how they get together to pray and how they held classes to teach other who are unaware of religion.
Every religion has its own traditions and rituals which people perform accordingly to their religions rules set by religious people or leaders; many religions has daily prayers and fasting, pilgrims and etc. For example Muslims have month of Ramadan to fast which puts the believers on a test how well do they perform to control their self for the sake of God. It is not about not to eat or drink anything from sun rise to sun set it also includes to stay away from anything that is considered bad in religion like lying, cursing, adultery etc. to behave from all these small things are part of the fast. This example describes how people take this Holy month to build relationship with God. Several of the religion traditions include: Christianity, which was a foundation of teachings from Jesus, Islam which was discovered by the Prophet Muhammad, Hinduism, which was formed through a collection of faiths and Gods and Buddhism, based on the experience of Siddhartha.
All these traditions are different from each other but they all have same purpose. For many religions they distinguish themselves by clothing, language, withdrawal from certain foods and places by showing sacredness through separation from these things. For examples, Muslims have to dress modest, eat only halal food and refrain from eating haram. Christians and Hindus are also among them. There are many stories that are myths in some religions, like how Mohammed escape from Mecca to Medina, how Hindu believed on life of their God Krishna and how Christine believe on death of Jesus and his resurrection.
Another critical issue is to make a difference between 2 forms of traditions oral and written. Many forms of religious teachings are to
