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A 5 page research that explores various topics in roughly one page summations that are from a religiously oriented perspective. Topics include materialism and functionalism, ultimate reality, phenomenology of religion, and the sacred and profane. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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antiquity (Materialism). According to this model of the world, there are no higher realities, no psychic or spiritual truths that are independent of the physical world (Materialism). Philosophical materialism is
the metaphysical view that there is only one substance in the universe and that substance is of a materialistic nature, something real (Materialism). To put materialism in simplistic terms.
All objects, every thing real, is made of matter. Materialism originated in ancient Greek philosophy during the sixth century BCE, and in China and India around the same time. It
is from this basic position that all the various permutations of materialism developed over the centuries. During the Christian era, denial of spirit as a basic realty was condemned officially
by the church. Functionalism is one of the major proposals that has ever been formulated as a solution to the "mind/body" problem (Functionalism). The mind/body problems refers to the
question that has haunted philosophers since antiquity as to how to differentiate between the body and the mind. Solutions to the mind/body
problem typically attempt to answer such questions as what is the ultimate nature of the mental(Functionalism). Functionalism proposes that the condition of being in a specific mental state should be
defined by the functional role of that state, rather than by proposed intrinsic features of that state. As this demonstrates, neither materialism nor functionalism promote a view of realty that
is compatible with most religious experience. Ultimate Reality Religion deals with the perception that there are higher realities to what can be perceived by these senses, or measured with
modern instruments. Religious observance brings together perceptions about what constitutes ultimate reality, e.g. the highest religious experience (Chapin). To the Christian, the ultimate reality is the sacrifice of Jesus Christ
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