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The impact And significance Of Religious Etiquette

论文

题 目：The Impact And Significance of Religious Etiquette

宗教礼仪的重要性及影响

学 院： 外国语学院

专 业： 旅游翻译

班 级： 2011级英语四班

学 号： 0601110227

学生姓名： 王庆

指导教师： 任素珍

2013年11月

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The Impact And Significance of Religious Etiquette

By

Wang Qing

Supervisor: Ren SuZhen

Xi’an University of Arts and Science

October 2013

Abstract

Religion is the product of human’s understanding about the world and themselves. It’s a universal culture phenomenon in the human society in different fields, affects greatly on many aspects of human life.It occurs only when human society reaches into a certain stage.So no doubt religion plays an important role in the communication and connection of all kinds of individuals,peoples or even countries.

By clarifying something about the religious etiquette, elaborating the effect of religion towards human in different cultures and the important factors of impeding religious etiquette when people discoursing, this paper aims to point out the impact and significance of religious etiquette, analyzing the factor of influencing people’s religious etiquette . It also discusses how people should behave correctly when meet man who has totally different beliefs .

Keywords: religious etiquette; right behavior; connection

摘 要

宗教是人类认识世界和自身的产物。它是不同领域中的人类社会一种普遍的文化现象,在很大程度上影响了人类生活的方方面面。它只发生在人类社会进入了一定的阶段。所以毫无疑问,宗教在不同个人、民族甚至国家的交流与联系中扮演重要的角色。

通过澄清一些关于宗教礼仪,阐述宗教对不同文化的人的影响及人们交谈时妨碍宗教礼仪的不同因素,本文旨在指出的影响和意义的宗教礼仪,分析影响人们的宗教礼仪的因素。同时,文章也讨论了关于面对不同宗教信仰的人时应该持有的正确行为。

关键词: 宗教礼仪;正确行为;联系

Table of Contents

Chapter One Introduction1

Chapter Two Similarities And Dissimilarities of Four Major Religions2

2.1 Christianity,Buddhism, 3

2.2 Islam,Taoism3

Chapter Three Effects of Religion towards People in Different Cultures3

3.1 Western3

3.2 Eastern4

Chapter Four Factors of Impeding Religious Etiquette When Discoursing4

Chapter Five The Importance of Religious Etiquette5

Conclusion5

References5

Acknowledgments6

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Chapter One

Introduction

Religion is something that humans do, and so the study of religion is primarily concerned with people and cultures. It is what people do on a day-to-day level. To put this in another way, religion is nearly always both a set of ideas and beliefs that people can engage with, and also the framework for their lived experiences and daily practices. The study of religion and culture therefore is about understanding how religion may be an important element of people across the world manifesting their differences. Particular religions are shaped by particular cultures, and of course the same occurs the other way round – most cultures are largely shaped by their dominant religions.

While human are the main subject of cultures, so definitely, religion and human have inseparable and tight connections. The purpose of writing this thesis is quite obvious. Nowadays,with the development of all kinds of science and technology, human beings have been living in a communicative world. If any nations are unwilling to open his heart to other nation, to other people,inevitably, this nation will lag behind and will be hard to stand firmly in the forest of whole world. Of course,people should contact with each other,but there are still other questions appeared. They don’t know anything about dress code,customs and taboos on those special occasion.Sometimes,a bad impression will be left just because the lacking knowledge of religious manners. In chapter one,two, three,four, much efforts are made to solve this problem.Through those basic knowledge of religions, those problems will be reduced.

Chapter Two

Similarities And Dissimilarities of Four Major Religions

As what has been pointed out in many materials, there are four major religions in the world. Though man knows something about them, but it still remains a comparatively worthy explored area. Many researchers have made their contribution and their constructive researches to introduce those four kind of totally different cultures and their properties respectively. This part will deal with the basic knowledge of four religions.

2.1 Buddhism,Christianity

Buddhism is one of the four major religions in the world,and it has been disseminated for two thousand years. There are no rules or laws that must be followed in Buddhism, but there are suggestions about behaviors that are more conducive to achieving happiness than others. These are the ten precepts: Don't kill. Don't steal .Don't engage in illicit sex.Don't speak divisively. Don't speak abusively.Don't tell lies.Don't engage in idle gossip .Abandon ill will. Abandon greed and cultivate right views.

Christianity originates from A.D.1 century. Today there are 2 billion Christians.And its influences are still increasing. The Bible is a collection of texts considered sacred in Christianity. Almost every christian have one book in hand. The Ten Commandments, also known as the Decalogue, are a set of HYPERLINK "/wiki/Biblical"biblical principles relating to HYPERLINK "/wiki/Ethics"ethics and HYPERLINK "/wiki/Worship"worship, which play a fundamental role in HYPERLINK "/wiki/Christianity"Christianity. They include instructions to worship only HYPERLINK "/wiki/God_in_Abrahamic_religions"God and to keep the HYPERLINK "/wiki/Biblical_Sabbath"sabbath, and prohibitions against HYPERLINK "/wiki/Idolatry"idolatry, HYPERLINK "/wiki/Blasphemy"blasphemy, HYPERLINK "/wiki/You_shall_not_murder"murder, HYPERLINK "/wiki/You_shall_not_steal"theft, HYPERLINK "/wiki/Thou_shalt_not_bear_false_witness_against_thy_neighbour"dishonesty, and adultery. Those ten commandments have a certain positive influence to human’s moral sense.

2.2 Islam,Taoism

Islam is the second-largest religion in the world and arguably the fastest-growing religion in the world. Muslims believe the Qur’an to be the

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verbal divine guidance and moral direction for mankind,just like Bible to Christians. They have five duties incumbent on every Muslim. These duties are profession of faith, prayers, fasting during the month of Ramadhan, giving of alms, and pilgrimage to Mecca.

Taoism is a philosophical and religious tradition that emphasizes living in harmony In Taoism, however, Tao denotes something that is both the source and the driving force behind everything that exists.

From what have been listed above, there are many similarities and dissimilarities of four major religions.They are the humanism, the caring for people; the anticipation towards beautiful life.Of course historically, theologically there are points of argument and discussion and debate. Even within each faith people will have different ways of interpreting how to look at the world. But from the overall global picture , the four faiths have a great deal in common. Among what the three faiths share: an unshakable believe in their faith, an incisive understanding of their own rules , and a moral certainty that, charity is the duty of all faithful followers.

Chapter Three

Effects of Religion towards People in Different Cultures

3.1 Western

When it comes to the effects of religion towards western people, it can be represented by Christianity. During Middle Ages, Christianity plays a very important part in uniting the Europe confronted with chaos. Also,it makes contributions to the classical culture or in other words to the reconstruction of the classical civilization. Moreover, Christianity takes the responsibility of education in the society at that time.Christianity has been and will be influencing western culture nearly on all sides from value orientation to manners, from literature to construction, etc.

3.2 Eastern

Similarly, Buddhism is the symbol of eastern culture,which occupy a crucial position in the orient. Taking China as an example,Buddhism brings into China a number of ideas which are destined to become dominant factors in the Chinese attitude towards life and death, society.The influence of Buddhism has permeated through all the fields of Chinese traditional culture owing to its special and unique glamour, such as literature,language,science,art and so on.

From above description, no one can deny the high position of religion in every culture. It influences all men in direct or indirect way. As a man living in this world,religion do spicy their lives in numerous way.

Chapter Four

Factors of Impeding Religious Etiquette When Discoursing

From a research, factors of impeding religious etiquette are uncountable.But it can be roughly divided into four categories.

Firstly, cultural background. People from different area observe different way of life. When they meet together,they habitually act in their own way. And then good communications are interrupted.

Secondly, ideological awareness. Ways of thinking decide what kind of the man is. If one has no high sense of treating other religion carefully ,then problems are destined to occur when talking.

Thirdly, religion repelling. This reason is quite evident in today’s world,particularly in middle Asia. Those people who embrace prejudice to other beliefs think their faith are always the best and shall be spread over the world,while others must be stamped out. No more word,problem arising!

Besides, shortage of basic knowledge of religious etiquette. People have no much knowledge of other people’s religion taboos or customs. So when they link up together, unpleasant situations will happen.

The four factors listed above are only part of reason. Certainly,Many elements can impact a ideal conservation.

Chapter Five

The Importance of Religious Etiquette

Religious etiquette has become critical elements required for all people in the world if one wants to go out to contact with other people.As the distance between people continue to expand and bring people closer, the most important element of successful conversation outcomes may be the appreciation and respect for regional, country, religious and cultural differences. For instance, a man who believes Islam may have up to four wives if he believes he can treat them equally, while a woman may have only one husband.They use only the right hand for eating and drinking. Also,Muslims are restricted in their diet and they prohibit foods include pork products, blood, carrion, and alcohol. So one should avoid those taboos when sitting together with different beliefs. A person with good etiquette is an agreeable companion, because he is always thinking of others and respect others. Learning the skills of proper religious etiquette, manners,one can become a qualified communicator and avoid many unnecessary trifles.Most importantly, people can learn from each other,and then enrich their creeds. The religious conflicts will decline as well by doing this way.

Conclusion

To understand the contemporary world, as well as the past, we need a sophisticated understanding of religion. The contemporary world is shaped by religions.Hardly a day goes by when there is not some manifestation of religion (religious identity, religious practice, religious conflict) reported on the TV or in newspapers. So the value of writing this thesis is apparent. In this thesis, a clear and sound outline is show in the very beginning,and then through examples,theory,document, historical facts illustrate and support the idea raised before. It’s very practical and useful not only in religion research field,but also in people’s daily life. To cultivate reader’s awareness of behaving correctly when meet different believers is one of major purposes.

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蔡云韬.人间佛教育和谐社会的契合.中南民族大学.2012

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Acknowledgments

I would like to thank my roommates for their constructive suggestions and their support .I am also very grateful to Yang mengdi for her helpful comments during the writing of this thesis. I would also like to thank Zengyao for taking the time to be my final examiner.

I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude toward Mrs.Ren who teaches The tourism service etiquette course for us this semester,and I have really learned a lot.

I must say This thesis would not have been possible without all their help and encouragement.

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