Religious values
Religious values reflect the beliefs and practices which a religious adherent partakes in.[1] Most values originate from sacred texts of each respective religion.[1] They can also originate from members of the religion.[1]
Members of particular religions are considered to be a prime embodiment of the particular religion's values, such as leaders or adherents of a religion who strictly abide by its rules.[1] Each religion has similar and differing values.[1] Being religious does not indicate that certain religions are opposed to particular attitudes or encourage them.[1] These values are also evident in secular society as it shares similarities.[2]
Various aspects of the significance of religious values have been considered with respect to
Religions influence areas of living in society such a how they treat money.[7] Money is used more ethically by religious adherents than those who are not.[7] Care of the environment is also a religious moral based on values of creation.[8] There are issues in society such as abortion which religious values impact as well.[9] An adherent's attitudes on homosexuality are also affected by religious values.[10] If divorce is taken as a path in marriage or not is affected by how religious the individuals are.[11] Even an adherents consumer behaviour can be shaped by their religion.[12]
Origin of Religious Values
Religious values are usually based on values reflected within religious texts or by the influence of the lives of religious persons.[1]
Known as the ‘Indigenous Religious Values Hypothesis’, the origin of religious values can be seen as the product of the values held by the society in which the religion originated from.[1] The beliefs of an individual are often centred around a religion, so the religion can be the origin of that individual's values.[13] When religion is defined heuristically, it can be used by individuals, communities or societies to answer their existential questions with the beliefs that the religion teaches.[14] Values develop from the answers religions give to those existential questions.[14]
Significance of Religious Values
Every individual does not consider religion to affect the actions and thoughts of a person.[15] Though in some communities secularisation is considered dominant, it does not mean that religion is insignificant in those communities.[2]
Money shapes religion in one way or another
Monetary Intelligence is greater among individuals who have a lower interest in making money but are more religious, along with those who wish to make ethical decisions.[7] In a study by Thomas Tang on monetary intelligence found that making ethical decisions in the study was related to recalling the Ten Commandments, which are a Christian set of ethical teachings from which Christian values are developed.[7] These developed values are uniform across many religions, though not all of them from the Ten Commandments.[7]
Environment
The Roman Catholic leader, Pope Francis wrote an
Abortion
A study done by Harris and Mills found that those who associate more with values of self-determination are more likely to agree to abortion than those who associate with values which reflect responsibility for others.[9] Persons who associate with values of self-determination are not as religious as those who identify with values of responsibility for others.[9]
Joseph Tamney and his colleagues conducted a study to create a model representing the reasons why or why not individuals support legalised abortion in the American population.[16] They mention that Judaism and Christianity possess values which limits an individual's freedom.[16] Christianity values the preservation of natural processes and human life.[16] This is why adherents of Christianity oppose abortion.[16]
Homosexuality
A study investigated the role of religion in how attitudes about homosexuality is shaped in 33 countries.
Divorce
Religious values are against divorce unless during a situation of abuse or adultery.[11] Studies show that this is due to the fact that religions benefit from marriage.[11] The value of family is evident in many religions, especially Christianity.[11] Christian teachings, which mainly originate in the Bible, consider divorce to be a sin.[11] This is why marriage is considered to be sacred and in need of preservation.[11]
Religion is considered to promote sustaining marriage and traditional sexual norms.[17] Being religious indicates that marriages are more likely to be stable and be happy.[17] Religious couples are not likely to cheat on their spouses than non-religious, married individuals.[17] Married couples who are religious are less likely to separate or divorce.[17] A study held by Joshua Tuttle and Shannon Davis found that religion decreases the occurrence of infidelity in married couples.[17] They claimed that this was because religions promote traditional sexual and marital norms and discourage extramarital sexual activity.[17] They also found that being religious did not stop marital infidelity from occurring, but it also did not change the chance of divorce.[17] Marital infidelity also does not appear to have an effect of the chance of divorce in long-married couples.[17]
Consumer Behaviour
Religion influences consumer's purchase.
Gender Discrimination
In Australia, the Sex Discrimination Act does not allow gender discrimination in any organisation except in religious grounds.[18] Due to this, religions are allowed to not allow women to perform certain duties or actions, such as the Catholic Church's refusal to allow women to be ordained as clergy.[18] Woman are not allowed to sit at the front of religious places of worship in some religions.[18] Some religions do not allow the entry of women into places of religious worship.[18]
The Study of Religious Values
William Schweiker points out that religion, unlike philosophy, is influenced by the lives of persons significant to a religion, places which are considered important and principles which are unique to a religion, differing one religion from the other.[19] Religious values can be studied with different approaches.[19] Schweiker mentions five of these listed below:
- Formalist approach
- Sociolinguistic approach
- Studying the ways in which communities live.[19]
- Ethical naturalism
- Where propositions of ethics by the world is examined to define general ethical concepts.[19]
- Hermeneutical
- Looks at the perspective of traditions on any given situation.[19]
- Multidimensional
- Is similar to a formalist approach, only differing in that it is more perceiving of how knowledge and disciplines were made among the specific labels given by the formalist aspect of this approach.[19]
The Practice of Religious Values in Society
Law in Countries
Saudi Arabia and
Pledging at Court
In
“I swear (or the person taking the oath may promise) by Almighty God (or the person may name a god recognised by his or her religion) that the evidence I shall give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.” (para. 3).[21]
Clothing
Female adherents of Islam are advised to wear the
Some Christians wear a cross as an indicator to their beliefs.[24]
Environment
The Mosques and Schools in Jordan are nearing 100% powered by renewable energy, using the energy for activities such as lights and heating water.[25]
Charity
- Caritas Australia is example of a religious affiliated charity, based on Christian values such as justice and equality.[26]
- Shamayim is a Jewish animal welfare organisation, encouraging religious communities to go without meat for at least a year.[27]
- Jewish Initiative for Animals (JIFA) is another animal welfare organisation which focuses on Jewish values to promote ethical eating.[28]
See also
- Religion and environmentalism
- Nature conservation
- Charity (practice)
- Ethics in religion
- Buddhist ethics
- Christian ethics
- Hindu ethics
- Islamic ethics
- Jewish ethics
- Morality
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