Religion and Identity

DOI

10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.314How to use a DOI?

Keywords

identity; canon; conversion; convergence; intercommunication; mysticism; essential datum

Abstract

The complexity of human behavior has its beginnings in the influences of the earliest experiences of life, indeed in those in utero and especially in those of the youngest years of existence. How a person is accepted into life and begins the life journey is initially molded by parents and care givers. These essential relationships form personhood and those vital perceptions which will later determine choices. One inherits quietly, almost imperceptibly, the values of those who significantly touch one's life; and those values have been very much formed by the manner in which a person has followed, or not followed, the religious tenets that shape life events. The household of any specific religious understanding occasions for its members an atmosphere which animates the way of thinking, the way of speaking, and, in a sense, the entire manner of interacting. In context, the codes and precepts of a religion, or belief, determine the behavior of those who have chosen to live within its manner of perceiving the world and its people. This behavior is natural to them and shapes the experience of those with whom they interact. This paper examines the phenomenon of religion and identity through the insights of certain philosophers and psychologists, notably Martin Heidegger, Jacque Maritain, and John Cobb. It will also mention of Gabriel Marcel's analysis of the present situation of social interaction and the vision for the future of Teilhard de Chardin from his experience of life in the far East and its religions.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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