Introd u c t i o n t o W o rl d
Religion an d B e l i ef s Sy s te m
Week 3
OBJECTIVES
A. Content Standard:
Analyze the influences of religion to culture and society
B. Performance Standard:
Student can express a deeper understanding of the
influences of religion to culture
and society
C. Learning Competencies:
Analyze the influences of religion to culture and society.
HUMSS_WRB12-I/IIIc-3.3
Specific Objectives:
At the end of the session, you are expected to:
1.Understand the influences of religion to culture and
society
2.Analyze the influences of religion to culture and society
CONTENT
The influences of religion to culture and society:
The Story
1.The positive effects of religion to culture and
of David
society.
2. The negative effects of religion to culture
and society
Activity 1: Give your idea!
GENERAL INSTRUCTION: Draw
a situation of a society
without religion. Draw the
situation and explain your
answer sheet
Religion helps us to define our lives, and
thus we can say it gives meaning to our
lives.
Religion helps us to deal with the most
stressful moments of our lives because it
gives us hope to move on.
It enables you to avoid depression, and
so your life moves more smoothly and in
healthy manner.
When you belong to a particular religion,
you must be having a supreme being in
whom you put your trust. For example, we
Christians believe in God, and it is in Him
that we put our faith. When we pray, we
believe that he is listening and will grant us
our wishes. Through this faith, we believe
that this is the way to achieve a perfect
well-being. Religion is not limited to
mosques, churches, temples or
synagogues; it is how we live. The morals,
Activity 3: What do you think? With many
positive effects of religion to the society,
what is negative of it? Use your answer
sheet to explain your answer.
religion - gave people a sense of belonging, it
gave people a sense of security and support
This was important because it made it much easier to deal
with everyday problems and issues.
For instance, diseases and death were extremely common
during this time period, because of the lack of medicine and
technology. So,religion play
an extremely important role in giving people a “guiding light”
to pray for health and help.
People also had a sense of spiritual protection in everyday life
and also in the afterlife.
With
a sense of protection, they lived a life with less fear of death
and more of a sense of hope.
Unfortunately, this new power gained by the church would
ultimately be the fatal blow to most communities and empires of
this time period. The enormous power and control of the church
created corruption in all aspects of religion and politics. The
church now had almost complete control of government, in fact,
in most cases they were seen as one, united body. Political
decisions were almost solely based on the expansion and
improvement of the church as shown in the movie, Joan of Arc, in
which King Charles VII only made important decisions based on
the advice of his top religious officials and also in Mary Queen of
Scots, where Mary’s choices and even her execution were the
results of Catholic and Protestant conflicts.
Another negative effect of religion was uneven distribution of wealth
and the corruption in the church. It is in this era that the saying “the
Activity 4: Tell your story about your
experience! What are negative effects of
religion you already experienced? What
are the things you did to handle it? Use
your answer sheet to explain your answer.
Religion creates both unity and
division. ... Religion creates both
unity and division. Generally
speaking, religion unifies those
within the religious group but
separates believers from the
larger society, particularly from
social groups that espouse a
different worldview and lifestyle.
Activity 5: Let’s solve it!
Why do you think religion
can do to cause unity rather
than division?
Activity 7: Think about it!
Use your answer sheet to answer the
following questions:
1.Among the positive effects of religion,
which can you relate with and why?
2.Do you think it’s ironic that wars have
been fought in the name of religion? When
it is
supposed to promote peace and
compassion? Explain your answer.
Activity 9: Express your creativity!
Draw a sketch using your own available art materials e.g
pencils, crayons, color pencil and etc.
in which people are doing the positive and negative effects
of religion. Use your answer sheet to
draw.
Activity 10: Explain the content/message of your sketch.
