7 Dimension

7 Dimensions of Religion The religion that Ive picked is Taoism and Im going to talk ab turn up 7 dimensions of Taoism. matter-of-fact and Ritual Dimension In Taoism, the practical bequeath held on every month 1st and 15th (Chinese calendar). According to the traditional every family shall wake up early morning and pray to the god by using incense stick and candle. They can bless their wish to the god when they are praying. Normally the practices leave al wholeness use harvests as their offering.The practices will take 1 hour or 2 hours but the prayers can leave afterward they had pray to the god, just time lag for their oblation to make sure that had received by the god. In Taoism the ritual will happens on some important days like Chinese late Year, Qing Ming and Hungry Ghost festival. The ritual for this three festivals have some similar part, first of all, food may be set out as anoblation or move over to the spirits of the deceased or the gods.Example like Chinese New Year, the food is sacrifice to the god and Qing Ming the food will be sacrifice to our ancestor and Hungry ghost festival is definitely to the ghost and also our ancestor that out from the underworld. In this festivals, another type of sacrifice involves the burning of Joss root and Hell Bank Notes, on the assumption that images thus consumed by the fire will reappear, not as a mere image, but as the literal item in the spirit world, making them available for revered ancestors and departed loved ones.Experiential and Emotional Dimension Experiential and Emotional Dimension When a Taoism prays they will bless and say their wish to the god, and at last they will ask the god by two ways, one is toss two coin and if the coins stage tail and head it mean the god received your wish and mostly will become true and 2nd way is by shaking the pipage fill in will many bamboo sticks and on the every bamboo have 1 special meaning word, it will represents the prophecy, the 1st stick drop ou t is your prophecy. Narrative or Mythic DimensionThe Hungry Ghost Festival of Chinese Taoism is also the Ullambana Festival of Buddhism. Commonly called Ghost Festival or Mid-July Festival, it waterfall on the fifteenth of every lunar July. There is a mythic that people believe lunar July is a month that all the ghosts will come out from the hell, something like Western cultures Halloween. It is believed that the gates of hell are open, releasing hungry ghosts to the earth to search for food and see their family. So people lessen up lanterns on roadsides or put lanterns in the river and provide shoes for the convenience of the ghosts.And they pray for their ancestors to bless later generations. Doctrinal and Philosophical Dimension Spiritual, one of the important term in Taoism. Taoists believe that human is a microcosm for the universe. The body ties directly into the Chinese five dollar bill elements. The five organs correlate with the five elements, the five directions and the seasons. Like the Hermetic maxim of as above, so below, Taoism posits that human beings may gain slamledge of the universe by understanding himself.In Taoism, various rituals, exercises, and substances are said to positively affect ones physical and mental health. They are also intended to align ones spiritually with cosmic forces, or alter ecstatic spiritual journeys. These concepts are basic to Taoism in its elite forms. Internal alchemy and various spiritual practices are used by some Taoists to make better health and extend life, theoretically even to the point of physical immortality. (Taoism,Doctrinal and Philosophical , n. a, n. d)Ethical and Legal Dimension Taoists believes that man after death will go to hell to receive the punishment for your sins. So that, what you did now will affect your next life. So Taoists is encourage doing charity and helps the people that needed to payback what the sins you have did before. kindly and Institutional Dimension During the festiv al, Taoist will go to temple to pray and get bless from the god, example like, the God Birth. Taoist will buy fruit and joss paper as the oblation. Material DimensionTaoisms temple most of all will build with many sculpture, example like Dragon and Kylin (Mythical Chinese animal) know as by Chinese unicorn. In front of the temple, there is a censer placed there for people to pierce the incense stick after they pray to the god. Inside the temple, the god statue will placed at the center of the temple. Different temple will place different kind of god statue be which gods temple is that. Reference Taoism Doctrinal and Philosophical, (n. a,n. d) Retrieved on 6/9/2012 from http//en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Taoism